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PREFACE. 

In tins little volume I have endeavored 
to give a brief but intelligent treatise on the 
subjects herein contained. Fully realizing, 
that every person, young or old, male or fe- 
male, should be in possession of the instruc- 
tions and knowledge herein set forth and thrt 
they will not read the large volumes written 
on these subjects, I have been very breif in 
my remarks, stating in the shortest intel- 
ligable manner what I have demonstrated 
and know to be true, and know they can le 
relied upon in every particular. 

As this work is written for the general pub- 
lic, I have classified the subjects as we meet 
them in life, in order to convey the greatest 
amount of knowledge in the shortest possible 
space. 

Taking first courtship and matrimony, the 
two greatest subjects one has to consider, tell- 
ing the good and the bad, the consolation 
of the good and the remedy for the bad. 



jond a short description cf the sexual or- 
gans, their e distinction and mechanical ac- 
tion that takes place during sexual inter- 
course. Third, how pregnancy is produced. 
Tom th, how to prevent pregnancy. Fifth, 
when and how the disposition of a person is 
developed, and how to develop any disposi- 
tion desired. Sixth, how to rear a child in 
the proper manner. Seventh, how to develop 
the mind to make it clear, strong and active. 
Eighth, hygiene. Ninth, materia medica, a 
rational treatment of disease. Tenth, medical 
compounds, how to prepare and their uses. 
Eleventh, nursing the sick. Twelfth, hyp- 
notism and magnetism, the greatest science cf 
the age, with full instructions how to pro- 
duce them, their application and uses in busi- 
ness and disease. 



GUARANTEE. 

I guarantee the above described work to be 
as represented. You read the book and test 
it six months, carefully following the instruc- 
tions therein, and if not as represented return 
the book in, good condition and I will cheer- 
fully refund your money. 

R A. TRIPP, M. D., 
% 114 Sixth Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. ¥ 



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CHAPTER I. 

COURTSHIP AND MAKJilAGE. 

It may seem a little strange to you that T 
should take up such a subject as this, but 
judging from observation I don't know of a 
subject that is of more importance to the hu- 
man family than this and yet I don't know 
of one that people try less to understand. 

To my mind marriage is the greatest of 
business transactions. It is a contract for life 
sealed with a solemn vow never to be broken 
until severed by death, and when correctly 
made never is severed until death. For that 
reason and the further reason that the happi- 
ness of two or more persons depends upon the 
disposition of the two joining themselves to- 
gether, the greatest care should be exercisod 
in choosing* a companion. If the two are op- 
posite in disposition they will not agree, as L 
shown by mixing vinegar and soda. There- 
fore two opposites should not be brought to- 



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getlier for the opposition will cause unpleas- 
antness to one or both, even though it does 
not cause trouble. This should not occur, 
and if yon see things alike never will occur. 
You never have trouble with a person with 
whom you agree. It is always in disagree- 
ments that contentions arise. 

When you are keeping company there is 
none so good, so nice, so sweet and so lovely 
as the one you are intending to marry, and 
this same kind feeling and attachment should 
last as long as you live, and will if you marry 
the one intended for you. But if you get 
one who cannot see things as you do, but is 
continually working in a different direction, 
it would be impossible for this great attach- 
ment to last, and as years roll on the attach- 
ments grow less and less until it is entirely 
severed or reduced to such an extent that there 
is no disposition to try to do anything io please 
one another. Then trouble and hard words 
become a frequent visitor, which drives then? 
still further apart. Then the husband, instead 
cf thinking home the pleasantest and loveliest 



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place on earth, oftentimes begins to stay out 
late at nighty preferring the company of 
those who are friendly and kind to him, rather 
than a quarrel with his wife. 

Or too many times driven to desperation 
by what he thinks unjust chastisement, goes 
to a saloon or somewhere else and there at the 
expense of his pocketbook, his health, his in- 
tellect and his manhood, seeks to drown his 
troubles with that vile liquid, which if con- 
tinued is sure to cause his disgrace and ruin. 

Or that once loving wife, but now a sad 
and broken-hearted woman, who as she looks 
into the future can see only disappointment 
and sorrows ; but ah, alas, who can tell where 
this start will end. Many, many times it 
ends in separation and the ruin of a once 
happy home. Oh, the sorrow and misery that 
is indured under such circumstances, no one 
ever can know until they have triey it for 
themselves. Will you say these people did 
n^t marry for love ? Does any one dare bring 
s^h accusation against them? 

Oh, my friends, it is not true. Ifany times 



4 HIDDEN M iToTEPtir.o ;i;:V;K ALE1). 

such things occur with those who at one time 
would have sacrificed even life itself for each 
other. Well 3 says one,, if those people mar- 
ried for love what on earth has ever caused 
such a wide separations I-thought love wa> 
what bound people together. Well, that is 
a fair question and I will endeavor to give a 
rational answer. Those people married for 
love and love only, never taking into consid- 
eration anything but teve, simply thinking 
their love was so string that nothing on earth 
could ever so much as weaken it. 

What is love ? 

When we look into the dictionarv the defi- 
nition for love is, to regard with strong feel- 
ing of affection combined with gratitude, but 
I believe I can give you a better definition 
and one that will come nearer answering the! 
purpose. Love is a passion, one that can be 
controlled by will power. We can educate 
ourselves to love almost anything. Let us take 
the highest authority and see if it does not 
prove this to be true. : ^ - 

Matt 1 ■•■w xxii : 37 : thou shalt love the Lore 



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thy Gcd, with all thy heart and with all thy 
soul and with all thy mind. Those are posi- 
tive command-, given by God himself; and 
Christ said the two greatest commandments. 
And again he says: Love your neighbor as 
yourself. 

God knew that man had the power to con- 
trol his love and to send it where he wished. 
If not, why did he give the command. The 
fact that he gave the command proves it to 
be under our control. 

But if we do not control love by will power, 
our eivironments will control it, and then 
love being without reason or judgment is 
liable to go any place. Now, the trouble with 
those people was simply this, they as all other 
people, had their natural dispositions and the 
disposition of one was quite different from 
that of the other. Hence they saw things 
differently. As all persons decide a question 
from the wav they see it, of course Hieir de- 
colons are different, and as we hav<> already 
seen that two opposes cannot agree these 
peoj)le cou-d not agree and the disagreement 



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caused tlie separation. Why did they not see 
ttiis before they married ? That't it. Simply 
because tliey were so intensely in love that 
the 'love blinded them so thev could not see 
the antagonism existing between their dis- 
positions until they began transacting busi- 
ness together. Then, when it was too late, 
they discovered they never were intended to 
be together. Their dispositions being different 
they could not see alike and not seeing alike 
they couldn't be happy together. Had they 
used the same precaution in choosing a com- 
panion they would have used in any other 
business transaction such a state of affairs 
would never have existed, but instead they 
allowed love to le^d them and it led them to 
ar°d disappointment. 

What is love courtship? 

It is a period of time that a man and a 
v. onian spends together trying to see how 
much they can fool each other. Thousand 
Ik.ve sacrificed all their future happiness upon 
the altar of love, whereas had they used good 
reason ard judgment founded "r :.)■& a thor- 



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nugh investigation it would have been entirely 
cliff ei-ent. 

HOW TO CIIOOoE A COMPAXIOX. 

The question cf how to choose a companion 
is one that has been discussed pro and con 
from almost every standpt int ; except the right 
one. Although lo\e lias taken the lead, and 
we have been taught that love was the all im- 
portant element, which to my mind is en- 
tirely wrong, not that a person should marry 
one they do not love, but that love should 
not be the controlling element, but should 
be held subservient to reason and judgment. 

When yon are courting with the intent of 
marriage the courtship should be for the, pur- 
pose of investigating the disposition to see 
whether the disposition of tlje one yon are 
courting is the same as your ow r n. 

The way to do this is to take up the differ- 
ent avocations of life and obtain their opinion 
without letting them know what your opinion 
is. Take a certain branch of business have 
them tell how they think they would like ; t ; 
whether they think it war.xl pry; bow they 



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would manage it: and so on until you have 
mcdc a thorough ini ct ■ration. Then take 
up another and then another until you ha e 
investigated all the different; branches in 
which you have any idea yon will ever engage. 
As you go through, compare th-°ir idea:- 
with your Own, and if they agree all the way 
throne h von can safely marry them and be 
assured that you will live happy with them. 
for it proves that your mind and theirs run 
in the eame channel and there will he no dis- 
agreement ; but if you differ on any material 
point know then tlu.t you cannot see thing- 
alike and pass them by for you will never he 
happy with them no matter how much you 
think of them, always keeping in nn^d that 
] Bople have their troubles when they disagree. 

Of all things get their idea of how fcn reaT 
a family, for I firmly believe that a differed 
of opinion on correcting the child causes 
more trouble than anything else where par- 
ents disagree, and not only this but it is almost 
sure to have a bad effect on the child. 

But il "on asree all the wav through and 



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marry 3 then the longer you live. together the 
stronger the attachment will be, the more 
yen will think of each othji and the happier 
you will be, which is the sole desire of each 
and every individual. 

ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS. 

As we hear so much about the wife or the 
husband having their affections alienated, I 
have decided to give my views on the subject. 
I am firmly of the opinion that if your com- 
panion's affections are alienated, that you do 
it yourself. I don't believe any other per- 
son could do it without your assistance; but 
if you mistreat your companion you turn 
their affections from you, and then they are 
very likely to go some place else. There are 
many wavs in which this can be done. It can 
be done by scolding them or by being sullen 
whenever they arc with you, by neglecting to 
do what they want yen to do, opposing them 
in whatever they undertake to do, withhold- 
ing your encouragement when they ar~ trying 
to do what is ri^ht, running around town or 



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around the neighborhood when you should be 
at home, by gambling and fooling away your 
money for stuff that is worthless, by abuse 
to the children, and in manv other ways, but 
of all things I believe that the jealous twitting 
them of being too intimate with others, drives 
more people's affections from their companion 
-than anything else. 

From my observation I would say that the 
husband or wife whose affections are alien- 
ated whollv from outside causes never had 
any affection. But by their cunning man- 
aged to hide their treachery sometimes for 
years, but finallv were caught and then the 
one thev were with had to bear all the blame. 

CHAPTEE II. 

THE SEXUAL ORGANS. . 

I will give a brief discription of the sexual 
organs just enough to give you an understand- 
ing of their length and construction, their use 
and the mechanical action that takes place 
during copulation, so you will understand 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 1; L 

how and in what way pregnancy is produced, 
and how it may be prevented. The average 
length of the male organ is five and one-half 
inches when erect as in sexual intercourse. 

The vagina (birth place) in the female is 
a sack-ljke cavity closed at inner end and is 
about 6 to 8 inches in length, of a contractile 
nature, so that it closes closely around any- 
thing put inside of it. 

The uterus is the organ commonly called 
the womb, and is the organ in which the child 
is carried. In its natural condition its length 
is 2^ inches inside. The neck of the uterus 
enters the vagina from the front about 3 
inches from the outside. It protrudes through 
inside the vagina from one-half to three- 
fourth of an inch, so the mouth is inside the 
vagina. The uterus is a muscular organ and 
has the power of contraction and expansion, 
that is to open and close. 

When sexual intercourse takes place and 
the proper amount of stimulus is brought to 
bear on the female organ by the friction of 
the operation the ovaum (female seed) i c v 



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charged into the uterus, which in turn con- 
tracts and forces a part of it out into the va- 
gina. It then relaxes and op 3ns. This causes 
a suction to take place like loosening the com- 
pressed bulb of a syringe, this suction draws 
whatever is in the mouth of the uterus up 
into the uterus. I have thus described the 
action of the uterus so you will understand 
how the male seed gets into it. . - 

HOW PREGNANCY IS PRODUCED. ^ 

If you wish to produce pregnancy the male 
seed should be discharged into the vagina 
just a little before the female discharges her 
seed, and the motion kept up until she dis- 
charges her seed. The motion will get the 
male-seed on to the male organ, rub ii on and 
into the mouth of the uterus. Then when 
the wemari discharges her seed and the suc- 
tion cf the utjrus takes places the male. seed 
that is ; in the mouth .cf the uterus is drawn 
up into the uterus where it comes in eon&rt 
with' the female seed, T he tvvo - s&kds j oiii* to- 
geth^ 'and produce pregnancy; / • ; - -i? 



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The impregnated ova then attaches itself 
to the uterus and begins to grow and in nine 
months develops into a full-formed child. 
The uterus then contracts and expels the 
child. 

As to the time a woman is liable to conceive 
it is not fully known. It is believed by med- 
ical men that some women are liable to con- 
ceive at anvtime, others will not conceive 
after the twelfth day from the cessation of 
the monthly and some will not after the 
eighth day. But it is admitted by all that in 
two or three days after the monthlies stop the 
woman is more liable to conceive than at any 
other time. 

HOW TO PEEVEXT PEEGXAXCY. 

It is a well known fact that male and fe- 
male seed must come to together in order + o 
produce pregnancy. It is only necessary to 
devise some means by which the two seeds 
can be kept apart in order to prevent preg- 
nany. If we can do this we have mastered 
the situation and can held pregnancy at our 



11 HIDDEN MYSTESIES REVEALED. 

command. 

In describing how pregnancy was produced 
Ave see by what mechanical action the male 
seed got into the uterus. That it was by being 
rubbed on and into the mouth of the uterus, 
and when the suction of the uterus took place 
it was drawn into the uterus. How can we 
prevent the male seed getting on the mouth 
of the uterus. In the description of the sexual 
organs we see the mouth of the uterus is only 
three inches from the outside, that the aver- 
age length of the male organ is five and one- 
half inches, therefore, if the male organ is 
pushed in the full length it reaches two and 
one-half inches past the mouth of the uterus, 
then if the male seed is discharged while in 
this condition you see it wdll be two and one- 
half inches past the mouth of the uterus, and 
unless some mlotion is made by which the 
seed is carried back to the mouth of the 
uterus it cannot get to the mouth. There- 
fore, if the male organ is pushed in full 
length and held there, both parties stopping 
all motion until after the uterine suction 
takes place, no seed will get on the mouth of 
the uterus and cannot be drawn into the 
uterus, hence no conception will take place. 

When you are having sexual intercourse 



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and wish to prevent pregnancy, just before 
tlie man discharges his seed he should push 
the organ in full length and hold it there 
until after the suction of the uterus takes 
place. This will prevent the male seed from 
getting into the uterus, therefore it will be 
impossible for conception to take place. 

After all is over the woman should take 
a syringe and wash the vagina out good with 
warm water. Be sure you get the male seed 
all washed out, for if some is left in the 
vagina when you have intercourse again it 
may be rubbed into the mouth of the uterus 
and drawn into the uterus so that conception 
will take place from the first seed discharged 
notwithstanding all precautions are used the 
same as before. The man should wash his 
organ also. 

The above instructions are very easy to 
carry out, and if strictly followed I assure 
you will be a perfect success. 

Xo doubt you will wonder why someone 
has not discovered this before. I am sure 
the only reason I can give is that they did 
not know how the male seed got into the 
uterus, therefore could not devise a plan of 
prevention. 

B"t this idea is not new to me. I discov- 
ered it nineteen years ago. Since that time 



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I have told it to a number of my friends 
and Lad it thoroughly tested, and it has 
proven a perfect success in every ca>° Yet 
there is nothing about it to injure either party 
in the least, but is perfectly healthy. 

There is no doubt in mv mind but what 
this will be one of the greatest blessings to 
the human family of any discovery ever 
made, for with this knowledge the woman 
can regulate her pregnancy to suit herself 
and will not be forced to have a child every 
twelve months, as some women I have known 
have been, but can have them three or four 
years apart if she wishes, and at any time cf 
the year she may desire, which will be a great 
consolation to her. 

I have known many women whose heaiih 

was ruined by fast breeding, and some were 

brought to an untimely grave, while thou- 

pands are ruining their health and suffering 

all kinds of torture by that ungodly habit. 

viz., abortion rather than breed so fast. 

I believe when this is known to the public 
it will put a stop to abortions, a habit that 
i^ on the increase and is ruining the health 
of thousands of women annually, and in my 
judgment can only be stopped by educating 
woman how to prevent conception. 



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CHAPTER III. 

WHEN IS THE DISPOSITION OF A CHILD 
DEVELOPED. 

At what time the disposition of a child is 
developed, although well known to men of 
science, it is not known to the general public, 
and for that reason there is seldom any effort 
made to develop the disposition of a child, 
and the disposition is formed just as it hap- 
pens — good, bad or indifferent. It is posi- 
tively known to men of science that the dispo- 
sition of a child is formed during the months 
of pregnancy, and that the disposition with 
which a child is born is the one it will carry 
to its grave. There is no such thing as chang- 
ing the disposition of a child after it is born. 
All that can be done then is to educate it to 
control its passions and bring them under sub- 
jection, for the natural disposition still re- 
mains the same. 

It is true a person can cultivate and, in eo 
doing, strengthen certain faculties but they 
cannot develop a faculty they do not possess. 



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Yon can also weaken faculties by holding 
them uncle: subjection, but you cannot oblit- 
erate therm and all the proof needed to prove 
this to be true is yourself. You have every 
passion today you had when a child, which 
you will see byexamining your own disposi- 
tion. Xow, this beins; true, vou can see the 
great necessity of developing the disposition 
right in the first place. 

HOW THE DISPOSITION IS DEVELOPED. 

The disposition of the child is developed by 
the impressions mads on the mother's mind 
during pi err. : when the child is born 

you vi: find t he di position is very simi- 

lar to that of the mother during pragnancv, 
except in those cases where the child is marked 
with some one else. Take the woman who is 
cross, ill n.°tvr d. sighing everything around 
;v ! .' tiiaes cut cf ten tie child will be the 
same way A woman who is melancholy will 
develop the same disposition in the child, and 
the womrn who is pleasant and quiet will de- 
velop a like disposition in the child. You 
all know till? t3 be true from vour own ob- 



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servation, and if this is true other things are 
also true. If the condition of a mother's 
mind and the impressions made thereon de- 
velop the disposition of the child then you 
see it is in her power to develop any disposi- 
tion she wishes providing she gets her mind 
in that line and hold it there, with a rirm 
resolution that she will develop the same dis- 
position in her child. To do this the mind 
must be kept in the same line during the en- 
tire pregnancy, for if it is allowed to change 
here and there, there is no telling what kind 
of a disposition you will form. 

Now if you wish to develop the disposition 
of a statesman take up the life of such men as 
Washington, Jefferson, Clay and Lincoln. 
Read their lives, study their disposition, im- 
press it upon your mind, and will that your 
child will be like them. If you w T ant the dis- 
position of a general, take up the livves of 
the great generals in the same way and so on 
throughout the entire fie.d. ' Any disposition 
you want take the life of some one in that 
line. 



2D iiiddz:: ^rsTsarss 2ey£ai.ei>. 

Perhaps some will doubt these statements. 
Let me asx you a question. Did you ever see 
a mothers mark on a chiid ? Will you tell me 
how they were made ? Ask the mother of 
the marked child and see if she cannot tell 
you how it was made and whether it was not 
an impression made on her mind. Now, if an 
impression made on the mother's mind will 
stamp a mark on the child so it can be seen, 
and you all know it will for you have seen 
them. Why will it not mark the mind in 
the same way ? 

Where do we get our criminals? We get 
the majority of them from the dime novel 
readers and from those who associate with 
criminals. Where do we get our statesman? 
From those who read the best of literature and 
associate with people of high rank. What is 
the cause of this ? You say it was born in 
them, that it runs in families, that they inherit 
it from their parents; that they were educated 
to it, and all such things, but hold, some of 
our greatest men have come from parents who 
were only ordinary people, and some of our 



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worst criminals have come of good respectable 
families, where there never was a spot on the 
character of their forefathers. There must 
Le a cause for this and the cause is the condi- 
tion and the impressions made on the mother's 
mind during pregnancy. Take for instance a 
family of eight to ten children and you very 
seldom see two of the same disposition, except 
where there are twins and then thev are gen- 
erally alike. Now those children are all of the 
same parentage and if it was bred in them by 
the criminal blood they would all be nearly 
alike. The children that are born one at a 
time are as much brothers and sisters as the 
twins, yet the dispositions are quite different, 
and the only reasonable cause one can give 
for this is the different impressions made on 
the mind of the mother during her different 
pregnancies. 

I have written more on this subject than I 
should have done were it not that I wished to 
firmly impress upon the mind the great re- 
sponsibility that rests upon each mother in 
molding the disposition of her child, so she 



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will ful j y realize that the destiny of tlie child 
depends upon the way die controls her 
mind during pregnancy, and that she may 
know how to control it to bring forth a child 
that will be a joy and a blessing to her, but if 
you allow your mind to run in a low,degraded 
channel you will surely have a child that will 
have lots of trouble and cause the parent* lots 
of sorrow. 

TO FATHERS. 

It is not to be supposed that the whole re- 
sponsibility is to be forced upon the mother. 
The father has his duty to perform as well as 
she, for he is also interested in the welfare of 
his child and it is his dutv to assist her in 
keeping her mind in the right condition. He 
should be good and kind to her, never doing 
or saying anything to mar her feelings or to 
get her out of that pleasant and exalted frame 
of mind in which it is necessary for her to be, 
but should do all he can to assist her. Any- 
thing she wishes von to do for her and ycu 
can do it, do so and do it cheerfully, but if 



HIDDEN M YSTERIES RE VE ALE D. 23 

you cannot tell her in a kind and pleasant 
manner that you would like to do so but that 

you cannot and that she must wait until vou 

»/ .. -. . . , .. t/ • 

can. Always be very careful to tolk in a khrd 
and benevolent manner r so .she will fully real- 
ize that it is because you cannot do it, and not 

because you don't want to, for if she decides 
you don't wish to do what she requests she 
may think you care nothing for her and im- 
press the same disposition in the child, so it 
will always be thinking it is neglected, which 
is a most unhappy condition; or she may 
think if it was some one else you would do it 
for them, and impress a disposition in the 
child to think others are cared for more than 
it is. 

I have seen people who seemed. to be per- 
feectly miserable all the time under just siich 
impressions, when there was no call for it 
whatever. If you don't want your child to be 
in such a condition don't force it on them by 
neglecting your wife.w T hen she is pregnant. 

Never be cross or abusive to your wife, for 
if you are it is liable to make the child either 



24 HIDDEN MVSTERIES REVEAT.KDc 

revengeful cr cowardly. Never allow your 
business or anything else to keep you from 
showing the proper devotion to your wife, so 
that she will realize that you value her above 
everything else and in so doing keep her in a 
kind and exalted state of mind during the 
whole period of jestation. Now, if you both 
follow the course here laid down, you will 
surely have a good and respectable family. 
One of which you will be proud and one that 
will make you happy in years to come. There 
is not a person on earth who can render to the 
parent as much joy or sorrow as their own 
child. So, it is of the greatest importance 
how its disposition is developed. Many times 
I have seen parents weeping and broken- 
hearted over what their child had done when 
they alone were responsible for the acts of 
the child. 

Parents if you develop the right disposition 
in the child and rear them right you will nevej- 
have such things to hear. But how often do 
we see a good mother at home with anywhere 
from one to eight or ten children, half fed and 



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half clad, rearing a family in dirt and filth, 
working day and night for a man who does 
not care as much for her as he does for a 
50 cent piece. If the wife complains of neg- 
lect he savs his business is crowding him so 
he hasn't time to talk to her ; he must attend 
to his business. Were this always true it 
would not be so bad, but my friends I wish 
to say that it is 111012 cftea the gentleman 
who prefers the company of the gaily dressed 
and fashionable lady to the hardworking, 
half-fed and half-clad woman he has taken a 
solemn vow to support that spends from half 
to two-thirds of the night away from home. 

If you like to be in the company of a gaily 
dressed woman, dress your own that way and 
then you will have aright to be with that kind 
of a woman. If you like a woman well fed 
feed your own that way and every one who 
knows that you associate with her will be 
proud of you; if you like a woman who is 
cheerful and pleaspnt go home and by kind 
treatment and encouragement make' yourself 
one at home and I will guarantee there will 



26 HIDDEN HYSTERIA REVEALED. 

be t.vo who will rospect vdu for it, viz., your- 
self and wife. 

CHAPTER IV. 

SEARING THE CHILD. 

Next to developing the disposition of the 
child comes the rearing of it, which is of very 
great importance, for although a child may 
have a good disposition by abuse or neglect of 
proper training it may go astray and be in- 
duced to do things which are not right. Many 
children by the abuse and neglect of the par- 
ent have been driven to disgrace and ruin. 
For if the child is neglected or abused at home 
it learns very earlv in life to tell it to its as- 
sociates and many times the willy, crafty 
enemy to all that is good, comes in the guise 
of a friend, taking advantage of the child's 
condition which the parent has produced by 
ill treatment, and not ps the roaring lyon we 
read abort, but with the curiiing of the ser- 
pent and the guile of the very devil himself, 
with gr.at promises cf reward and pretense 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 27 

0? love takes the child as it were by the hand 
and step ly step leads it down to disgrace an,d 
Mill. 

Oh, the heart-rending pains and anguish 
the parents then suffer as a just rebuke for 
having neglected to do their duty. Many 
times they heap curses upon the one who 
ruined their child, or seek revenge through 
the law, or by taking the law in their own 
hands undertake to inflict the punishment 
themselves when they have laid the founda- 
tion themselves. Whereas, had they pursued 
the proper course, the child would have been 
an honor and a credit to itself and also to its 
parents. 

Pareents, do you want your children hon- 
onable? If so, take the proper course and 
you will -have them that way. You hold the 
destiny of your own children in your own 
hands, and if they go to ruin you are to blame 
for it, and should be held responsible. In 
writing a short essay on so ^reat a subject it 
would be impossible to tell just how "to handle 

h individual child. A31 we can do is to 



28 ITIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

give the general principles and you must then 
decide for yourself the proper course to pur- 
sue, bearing in mind that there is hardly any 
two children who require just the same treat- 
ment in every respect. The first thing to do 
is to learn the disposition of the child, then 
you will be in a position to know how to treat 
it to have it obey you, for if you ever expect 
to control the child vou must do it from the 
start. You must commence your training 
just as scon as the child is old enough to un- 
derstand what you want it to do, and continue 
as long as they are with you. One of the 
greatest mistakes parents make is they wait 
too long before they begin to train the child, 
£.nd another ere is they quit training too soon. 
A child is rot fully competent to run its o\vn 
business under twenty five years of age. The 
idea of thinking they are at 16 is ridiculous. 
You should never under any circumstances 
tell a child to do a thincr end then do it jovr- 
.self. Never tell a child to do a thing and then 
let them go without doing it, for if you do 
you will spoil the child and after that they 



JIIDDiCN MYSTEKIES REVEALED. 29 

will not think they are under any obligations 
to do anything you tell them to do. Never 
scold or fuss with a child. If you do, it will 
lose respect for you and hold you as another 
child, instead of a parent, and it has a good 
reason to do so, for that is childish, ^ever 
promise a child anything and then fail to give 
it to them. If you do they will lose confi- 
dence in you and you will therefore lost con- 
trol of the chLd. Don't speak cross or order 
a child to do anything until you have first 
asked them to do what you want done. In 
fact never speak cross or abusive to a child 
under any circumstances whatever, for all 
such treatmeent has a tendency to arouse the 
anger of the child and cause it to lose that 
fine respect that a child should have for its 
parent. 

When you wish your child to do anything, 
say to it in a kind and pleasant manner, Won't 

you do — for me, or I wish you would 

do * — - — — for me, and if they do it pet them 
and say that's a good child, you like to work 
for (papa or mamma, whichever it may be) 



30 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. : 

don't you. Never Le tco busily engaged to 
congratulate the little cue when it does what 
you ask it to do, for it appreciates it and it 
will encourage it to mind you the next time. 
But if it does not go, say to it in a pleasant 
tone, aren't you going to do 'what I ask you to 
do ? Then if it doesn't go, say in a firm but 
not abusive tone, now you do what I say. 
Then if it will not go, say this is the last time 
I shall tell you. Now-, you do what I told 
you to do or I shall punish you. Then if it 
does not go, inflict the punishment until it 
is glad to go, if it takes all day or a week, for 
if you stop the punishment before it is con- 
quered so it is willing to do what you say you 
have made your child worse instead of better, 
for you have satisfied it that it is boss instead 
of you, and if you afterwards undertake to 
Conquer it it will require twice or three tinier 
the punishment to do so that it w r ould the 
first time. Not only this but it will always 
take more, for it will not forget the time it 
whipped you out and will always be wantirg 
to repeat t':e d-se, tut if you conquer it -tho 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 31 

first time and every time it will not be long 
until all that you will have to do will be to 
ask it, fcr it will scon realize that it will have 
to obev any vav and it is much nicer to olev 
without the punishment. If you whip the 
child always take a keen switch and whip it 
until you are sure it has enough to make it 
obey. Never w: : p a child, then step and ask 
it if it will obey and if the answer does not 
suit you whip again; but give it what your 
judgment tells you is enough ; then say now 
do as I say or I will give you some more. If 
they go and do it that is sufficient, but if not 
whip until it does. After it has done what 
you said talk to it kindly, tell how you dislike 
to whip it and that you hope you will never 
have to punish it. because you want to but that 
it is your duty to make it obey and that you 
must do so, but if it will obey without that 
you will never punish it again, but if not you 
will have to punish it again and be sure you 
k°ep your word. 

Such training will cause the child to think 
that it was its own fault and that it deserved 



32 TIIDDEX MYSTEEIES EEVEALED, 



just what it got, and will therefore respect 
you, but if yon are continually slaping and 
thumping the child praund when yon are 
angry, it will think it is ju?t because yon' want 

^hip it and will soon lose all respect for 
yon. Therefore you should never punish a 

child when ycti are angry, and for the fur- 
ther reason yon arc liable to injure the child 
by too severe punishment when angry, and 
it seldom does any good. The only object 
there is in punishment is to make the child 
obey you and miles it is necessary von should 
never punish it at all. 

It is much better for both parent anel child 
if y ; talk kindly to the child and get it 

to obey you. I have known children who only 
obeyed because they were afraiel of their 
parent, and I never saw one of them who 
would obey anything the parent said after 
they got large enough so they were not afraid. 
While en the other hand the child who obeys 
1 isc they lore the parent will obey them 
as long as they live, I expect some will say, 
oh, that is all r:c:ht but who wants to bother 



JHDD.EX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 



33 



so much as all that, or I could not control my- 
self to rear a child in that way. Well, if that 
is true, it's a shame that you should ever have 
a child to raise, for you haven't enough good 
common sense, reason and judgment to rear a 
child. 

Never use a large stick or your hand to 
whip a child, for you are liable to injure your 
child. Always be kind and good to your 
child. Show to it by your words, looks and 
actions that you love it and in return it will 
love you. 

Never promise a child anything and then 
not give it to it, for if you do it will very 
soon learn to look upon you as a liar, and 
children do not like liars.. If you always 
keep your word with your child in after 
years it will point to you with pride and 
will say, my pa or my ma never told me a 
lie, and the whole world combined together 
could not shake its confidence in you, but if 
you deceive it it will lose confidence in you, 
also its respect for you, and you will to that 
extent lose control of the child. I speak 



31 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 



both from experience and observation. I 
La\e three children, aged ID, 23 and 25. It 
has been very seldom I have had to punish 
them. One I never whipped. There i? no 
place like heme for them, no one on earth 
like pa and ma. If I ask either of them to 
do anything it is done. I hey are as obedient 
today as when 10 years of age. My motto 
has been when rearing them, if I wanted 
them to do anything to ask them, very sel- 
dom ordering them to do anything. Now, if 
I order one of them to do anything, it will 
give me a look that says, have you lost all 
respect for yourself and child ? But when I 

sav I would like vou or want vou to do so 

* • t- 

and so, the answer is alright, when and how 
do you want it done. Tell them and it is 
done. 

This is a great comfort to me, but had I 
abused them, been cross and mean to them 
while they were growing up they would not 
treat me that way today. You can have just 
such children if you will follow my instruc- 
tions. Always be kind nvd gcod to your 



child, at ti:e same time be firm. ,AEqw,vou:f 
child plenty of liberty but not too niu^li. 
Teach it tie evils of the 'world haw it is 
liable to be led astray by people who pre- 
tend to be its he^t friend:, but in r^Iity are 
its worst enemies. Never permit it to be ed 
step by step down those paths of vice, but be 
'ever watchful and if it starts in that way 
take it right to the very depth rf it, let it 
see the worst of it right on the start. Don't 
send it with some one else; go yourself, stay 
with it and take it away with you. Then 
point out the evils of those things and you 
will , thoroughly" disgust them, so they will 
want to turn their back on every channel 
that leads in that direction. Its the sudden 
shock that produces the effect. Many per- 
sons might have been saved from their evils 
tad this "course been followed, who have been 
led on step' at a time until their ruin was ac- 
complished. If you wfsh to thoroughly dis- 
gust your child with prostitution show ihevi 
a person half eaten up with syphilis. The 
gay and fashionably dressed sporting woman 



26 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

won't do it. 

If you wish to turn your child from drink 
show it the man who is drunk in the gutter, 
wallowing in tTie mud and his own vomit. 
The moderate drinker won't do, for the in- 
fluence is on the wrong side and in other 
crimes the same way. Then, when it speaks 
of such things or you have any idea it might 
be thinking of doing anything that has a 
tendency in that direction, calls its attention 
to what it has seen and caution it not to make 
a single step in that direction, or it may go 
the same a? the one it has seen. 

On* of the -greatest faults parents have is 
that they think a child of 14 or 16 years is 
too larsre to punish and they are turned loose 
just when they need the greatest care, for 
children of 14 to 16 are giddy, conceited 
and have no stability. They begin to think 
they are a man or a wornsT 1 ju-t starting *~t 
in the world and having no will power, the}' 
are easily led into all kinds of vice. Then 
you should control them until they become 
stahlc cnouah to contrc 1 themselves. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES RiSViSAl^ED. Oj 

Take the girls who are ruined and nineteen 
out of twenty are between the age of 15 and 
19 years. 'Ihe reason is that at that time 
the sexual organs are developing, the animal 
pashions are great, while the mind is weak 
and undeveloped. They have no firmness 
and therefore an easy pray to the dtam^n 
who under pretense of lo%e and friendship 
§eeks to gratify his own desire, although it 
ruins the reputation of the young lady, who 
as a rule is not taught how 7 to resist the in- 
fluence brought to bear upon her. While 
young men are taught all the tricks and 
schemes known to older ones of their sex the 
different methods used by men to get the 
advantage of ladies, ihe young lady is left 
in perfect ignorance of how to resist the in- 
fluences brought to bear upon her and in her 
ignoraHee must fight her way through or suc- 
cumb to the pressure brought to bear upon 
her. 



3S ILIDDJ^ MYSTERIES REVKAT.ED. 

... 



TRYING TO GET THE ADVANTAGE OF THE 

YOUXG LADY. 

* 

I shall not attempt to tell all the different 
methods used but will erive a little outline, 
sufficient, if studied careful lv, to enable anv 
young lady to take care of herself. In the 
first place I wish to say that every person 
has what is called animal magnetism. Some 
more, some less, but all have some, by which 
they influence others, and when a person 
understands how to use it it becomes a pow- 
erful a^ent in their hands, the effect of which 
is greatly intensified by personal, contact. 
This is what is called power of mind over 
mind, the means by which one person in- 
fluences another t do what they wish. When 
a young man w relies to get the advantage of a 
young lady the hrst thing he undertakes to 
do is to get his hands on her. The next step 
is to get his arm around her, then an impres/- 
sive kiss. This is continued until the young 
lady becomes quiet and passive. The next 
tiling is to got Lis hand on her breast. If 



£fc£ objects she is kid it won't hurt her arid 
tfe^ he 1 ctofe that way with* <*iLei girl: and 
ti&t^it 'doiSB Mki &0" much good' that if she 
thinks -toy tiyng oi him she will not refuse 
feat oii<l littte favor. ^ i ^ •: 

* Aft&if ^this little difference is "settled tke 
next step is to begin to- 'handle the lov^er 
limbs, then to ,get the hand under the clothes 
and then with all the power of mind and the 
skillful use <5f the hand the gill V ru in is 
sought ,and ; generally ac^mnpUshed. • ni\flark 
yotr, during the whole procedure he keeps one 
arm' around the waist and ;a hold of the breast 
<$# one of the girl's hands. This ;is done for 
the purpose of holding in connection the cur- 
rent ':: of 'magnetism. ■ • Many times I have 
heard youngs men teli a^tmt working .gi lis 
iii this way for tkrfeey f uiu ; vl \ e and six nion tiis 
before they could accomplish their desire but 
finally succeeded, or would become disgue^ted 
and quit going with them because they could 
not. 

... The night is considered the best time and 
that is :the reason that thia class -.h always so 



4 J HIDDEN MYSTEKIES BEVEAI^D. 

anxious to run their courtships so far into the 
night that the girl becomes drowsy and stupid 
and therefore loses her will power of resist- 
ance, then she becomes an easy prey. I 
firmly believe that out of fifty gir^ that are 
ruined forty-nin. are alter night, which is a 
very large per cent. 

ADVICE TO MOTHERS. 

How to teach your daughter. 

First I must talk to the mother. It is 
you to whom your daughter looks to edu- 
cate her how to take care of herself; there- 
fore it is placing a great responsibility on 
you and if you neglect to teach her and she 
comes to ruin, you are to blame for it. There 
are but few mothers who have not had ^ome 
practical experience along this line and should 
realize the danger there is in not educating 
your, daughter or. this line, for although you 
may have passed through all right, your 
daughter may not be so fortunate. You 
shpuld commence this training when .she Is 
abro^tlO or 11 years old. Before she begir^ 



Hidden mysteries ktevealed. 41 

to keep company you should lay the whole 
matter before her and impress it firmly upon 
her mind so she will not forget it. Tell her 
the awful results and that when a girl loses 
her reputation in that way she cannot regain 
it. Then teach her that she must not be run- 
ning around after night. That if she wishes 
to keep company she must do that in day- 
time, for she can protect herself much better 
in daytime than after night ; that she must 
not allow a young man to put his arm around 
her for it is dangerous in two ways, the one 
already explained by the actual contact giv- 
ing him the advantage, that there is danger 
of disease which is oftentimes transmitted 
from one to another by kissing. Many times 
syphilis has been transmitted by kissing a 
person who had syphilis in the mouth; thai 
she must not allow him to feel her breasts, or 
her lower limbs for it is not - decent or re- 
spectable and that no decent young man 
will do so, that it is o^.iy to get the advantage 
and tell her why in detail Do not be afraid 
to educate her while she is y ^ng. Teach her 



ii HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

ftilly tlic danger there is in allowing such 
tilings and that the easiest time to stop them 
is at the first attempt. If a young man can 
neither husr or kis a voun<>; ladv he will not 
trv verv hard to do something else, but when 

It - *' O 7 

he gets that much of a start it is hard to stop 
him. 

Many times a young man will pretend 
to be very much offended if she refuses him, 
but he will in reality respect her that much 
more, and if they are keeping company with 
the intention of marriage that he will marry 
her that much quicker. If he quits going 
with her because she will not allow him to-be 
hugging and kissing her the quicker he quits 
the better it is for her. The young man who 
keeps company with a young lady 4ov the 
respect he has for her will appreciate her 
tact of taking care of herself, also for not 
wanting to keep company after night. But 
the young demon who seeks her ruin will 
not have much use fe\r her and will soon pass 
her by and that is what she w T ants, for no lady 
wants to be with .a man of that characters 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 



43 



Many times I hare heard young men, and 
some who were not so young, say just wait, 
if I can get her after night I w T ill fix her. 
Now you watch my smoke. They well know 
the advantage they have after night, and the 
young lady should also be well posted on the 
subject. 

WOMEN ARE TO BE WATCHED. 

Young men are not all who should be 
watched. Thousands of girls are ruined 
through the influence of women, young and 
middle aged, who you think are nice, respect- 
able people, but who are in fact what are 
known as a sligh sport. Many times they 
float in the best society and are considered 
as nice, respectable people. They gain the 
confidence of your daughter, pretend to be a 
warm f ri end of her s > and then begin to tell 
her sLv, ought to get out and see more of 
life, that she stays too close at home, that 
there is no need of her working so hard, she 
can wear good clothes,- have a good 
time, plenty of money and all kinds of fun, 
that she knows a fellow who has lots of money 



44 inDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEAUED. 

and that he would really love to have her 
for his solid girl, and now if yon will just 
show him a good time yon can have all the 
money you want, I'll fix it for you if you 
say so. It's a chance of a life time. 

This is very inticing to the young girl and 
she never stops to weigh the matter, but falls 
into the trap set for her. The time is set, 
the meeting- arranged, your daughter is taken 
to a nicely furnished room where she meets 
the one who is to be her solid friend. All 
kinds of nice drinks are furnished and your 
daughter invited to take a drink with her new 
friend. One drink calls for another until 
she is intoxicated, and then that demon, a 
pretended friend, with the assistance of his 
drinks and the aid of his she devil in the 
guise of a lady friend, set to work to ac- 
complish your daughter's ruin and nine tiines 
out of ten your daughter leaves that room a 
ruined girl; and why, because you have 
failed to do your duty in training her or have 
not Lad the vigilent watch over her you 
should have had. I tell you, my friend, I 



HIDDEN M-YSTEEIES REVEALED. 



45 



always kept a close watch on the lady friends 
would be more afraid cf one of those women 
ruining my girl than a young man, and have 
of .my. daughters. . If . I saw any moves made 
that gave rise to suspicion or they wanted 
my daughter to go out with them at^njght. 
I have always worked some plan to break the 
friendship a^once. ; x \ -.. 

: LAYIN& THE /BLAME ON SOME " ONE ELSE. 

In my judgment one of the worst things 
a parent can do is "to try to lay the blame 
of their children's mischief on some one else. 
It is bad in two ways. First, it is trying to 
remove the responsibility from the child 
which has a tendency to make the child 
!think that the parent is trying to hide its 
meanness under somebody else's faults, thus 
trying to excuse it and removing all respon- 
sibility from the 'child, and they in return 
soon learn to try to lay the blame on some 
one else, for everything they do which is not 
fight. Second, it is almost sure to get you 
the ill will of the one so accused as no one 
Wants to bear the blame for other people's 



46 HIDDEN MYSTEBIES REVEALED. 

meanness. The parent who does so loses 
friends, and the child who does so many 
times looses a friend and gets a licking to 
boot from the one they accuse of being the 
cause of their deeds. 

It is much better to hold the child respon- 
sible for what it does and teach it from the 
cradle up that it alone is responsible for it 
and that will many times keep it from being 
wrong. The only child, man or woman, that 
ever amounts to anything in life is the one 
who realizes that he must come out and stand 
for himself, that tagging along behind some 
one else will never make him a leader and 
that he must think and act for himself. Then 
why not teach him the lesson from the cradle 
up if you do when he grows up to manhood 
or womanhood you will not have to kick him 
out off the doorstep in order to get him to do 
something. 

There are many other channels to be 
watched, and the parent should always be 
on the alert, watching everything so if any- 
thing is going wrong they will see it at once. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. ±7 

TO THE BOYS. 

The house of illfame, the gambling house 
siid drink habit are the loading vices that 
take more boys from the path of duty than 
anything else. It's an old saying and one 
I believe to be tine that whisky and women 
Lai T e ruined more men than all other vices, 
and I would advise everyone to be very cau- 
tious how they asociate with them, for they 
lead on to other crimes and no one can tell 
when such influence is started where it will 
stop. It may be in the penitentiary or on 
the gallows. Therefore shun them. When 
you are drinking you are associating with 
bad company; when*' you are gambling you 
are in bad company and when in the house 
of illfame with the very lowest of God's cre- 
ation, where all manner of evil is carried on 
and you don't know how far such influence 
may lead you, so stay away. But it is not 
neeesary to continue this subject further. 
Eternal vigilance is the watchword that will 
bring success when based upon good reason 
and judgment in what course course to pur- 



4S JUDDER MYSTERIES BE YEA LED. 

sue. with firmness sufficient to carry out what 
your judgment says i- right in kind a5ec- 
tionate manner. Teach your child to do what 
is right and God and your child wik i: less 

tou for it in future vears. 

• * 

CHAPTER V. 

MIXD CCLTUBE. 

The mind is that part of man which think-. 
reasons, judges and controls every move, a:-*. 
emotion, joy or sorrow. The will work** in 
harmony with the mind and might be called 
a par* of the mind, for the will controls the 
mind and holds it in the line we wish. We 
concentrate and deepen our thoughts, or wc 
lighten them by will power. We will to 
walk, run, jump or any othei act we choose 
to perform, and by that will power putting 
the nerves and muscles in motion the act is 
accompli :hed. T: : wfll ia the power that 
sets every voluntarv muscle in motion. By 
if we lift heavy loads, and by it we control 
ourselves and others. Thi- bein«r true you see 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 49 

how important it is that the mind and the 
will are kept in good healthy and active con- 
dition that we may perform the duties incum- 
bent upon us. 

You all know that the physical system is 
sustained in good health and active condition 
by the proper food, drink and exercise. And 
the mind must be nourished in the same way, 
and the condition of the mind will depend 
upon the quality of the food. If we want 
a pure, healthy mind we must feed it with 
pure, healthy, information, for as sure as 
corrupt food will injure the body and decay- 
ing substances will poison the system that 
sure will corrupt literature and information 
injure and poison the mind. But if the edu- 
ation is pure and wholesome it will keep the 
mind in a pure and active condition. 

The drink of the mind is the amusements, 
or what we term recreation, which moisten? 
and refreshes the mind the same as water 
moistens and refreshes the body. This too 
should be pure. What would you think of a 
man who would turn from a good, pure well 



50 



HIDDEN MYSTEKIES REVEALED. 



of water and go down to a frog pond full of 
slime and filth to get a drink and fill himself 
with that kind of water. I would expect you 
to say, he was either crazy or a fool, von 
could not tell which. But I would define it 
differently. I would say that he would make 
a splendid mate to hitch in with, the one who 
turns from good pure amusement and goes 
to some dirty, filthy place of amusement and 
fills his mind with that kind of stuff. You 
would not expect the person who drank the 
water from the frogpond to stand up with 
the man who drank good pure water ; yet 
he will stand up as long with him as the one 
who fills his mind with vile amusements will, 
with the one who fiills his mind with pure 
amusements. Mto thinks with the mind. 
The thoughts are what 1 give the mind exer- 
cise. 

Like muscular exercise a man can train 
himself to think fast or slow. People usu- 
ally think more rapidly when engaged in 
sport than they do when engaged in busi- 
ness. Raving described the mind, will and 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 51 

thoughts I will now explain how the work 
is accomplished. First, the thing is trans- 
mitted to the mind by one or more of the 
five senses/ feeling, hearing, smelling, tast- 
ing or seeing. The mind takes it up and 
thinks of it, reason then discusses it. It is 
then handed to judgment to decide. When 
the decision is made it is handed back to the 
mind and the mind hands it to the will for 
execution. This process is all completed, 
sometimes in an instant, as when a person is 
pricked with a pin or something else is 
brought in contact which causes instant mo- 
tion. Sometimes this controversv is carried 
on for months or even years before a con- 
clusion can be reached. We will now T show 
you how to develop the mind. First, the 
subject must be received by the mind through 
education thought takes it up and begins the 
investigation with reason, and by an effort 
of the will we concentrate our mind, thoughts 
and reason on the subject, banishing every- 
thing else until the investigation is made. As 
the investigation is going on the judgment 



52 HIDDEN MYSTEKIES EEVEALED. 

is frequently called in to decide on different 
points. Every time you concentrate your 
mind on a subject in this way the mind be- 
comes stronger and you are enabled to go 
deeper and deeper into the researches of the 
subject, because each time you are getting 
rid of more thoughts on other matters which 
on the start kept mixing in and while you 
were trying to think of one thing you would 
be thinking of a dozen other things of which 
you did not want to think at that time, but if 
you keep on trying after awhile you will get 
so you can concentrate your mind on any 
subject so strongly that you will be perfectly 
unconscious of everything else. People may 
talk to you or to others in the room where 
you are and you will know nothing of what 
is being said or done. In this connection you 
can fathom the depths of subjects you never 
expected to. You will see things in it that 
will surprise you and your friends and why ? 
When you have so fully developed the mind 
and have your thoughts so completely under 
the control that you have as it were lost your 



I! IDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. O i 

identity. You are unconscious of everything 
save the subject of which you are thinking. 
ihe soul then comes to your rescue and im- 
parts knowledge that you nor any one else 
had ever thought of. This is the condition 
ail persons have got into who ever made a 
discovery worth thinking of. This is the 
condition which every one must get into be- 
fore they can control themselves, hence con- 
trol others. 

It has been said, the one who can control 
himself can also control others and can bring 
them to their rescue in time of need, but the 
one who cannot control himself cannot con- 
trol others. This at first thought may seem 
very strange to you but let me say to you 
that will power controls the universe. Every 
house, barn, railroad, steam engine, machin- 
ery or anything else that has been built has 
been built by will power. Education feeds 
the mind and makes it strong, thought gives 
it exercise which is necessary to keep up ac- 
tivity and should be in a line to make pure 
and honorable exercise. Recreation is tlin 



^>* HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

drink which moistens and refreshes the mind. 
This also should be of a high and honorable 
grade so as to keep the mind in a pure and 
honorable condition. Have the right kind of 
food, drink and exercise for the mind, con- 
centrate it as before stated by a firm deter- 
mination of the will upon any subject you 
wish to investigate and by continuing to con- 
centrate the mind on different subjects it will 

grow stronger and become more obedient 

- 

every day. 

But you must not concentrate it too long 
at a time without rest or recreation, for if 
you do you may strain and weaken it and 
thereby do yourself an injury. Therefore it 
is necessary to use caution and not force 
yourself beyond that you are able to bear. 
You should never accept anything as a fact 
simply because some one else says it is true, 
but should take it up and investigate it care- 
fullv in vour own mind to see whether it is 
true or false. When you receive anything 
as a fact without- any thought, you are sim- 
ply imbibing the- thoughts of others; there- 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 65 

fore becoming subservient to their idea and 
thereby losing your owii personality and fill- 
ing your mind with borrowed thoughts, which 
will always keep you in the rear. If you ever 
excell others or go to the front you must 
think for yourself. When you desire others 
to do anything for you, talk to them kindly 
and honestly until you gain their confidence. 
Then in a kind, firm manner talk to them 
about what you wish them to do, at the same 
time having a determination of the will that 
they shall do what you request. All this 
strengthen^ the mind, makes you more inde- 
pendent and better prepared for future work. 

CHAPTER VI. 

LAWS OF HEALTH. 

Although much has been published on the 
laws of health the general public know very 
little about it. Pure air is one of the most 
essentia! things and yet people are very indif- 
ferent about arranging to have pure air in the 
house. Fouh and stagnant air is sure to breed 



56 HIDDEN MYSTEBIES KEVEALED. 

disease, therefore you should always have your 
houses well ventilated winter and summer. 
The whole premises should be kept clean and 
dry, never allowing filth or stagnated water 
to accumulate about the house or barn, for 
there will be a poisonous gas generated in it 
which will rise in the atmosphere and cause 
disease. 

You should always keep your cellar clean 
and dry, for if vegetables are allowed to rot 
in the cellar they impregnate other vegetables 
that are in the cellar and make them un- 
healthy, also poison the atmosphere which 
will come up in the house and cause disease. 
Of all disease breeders a tight bedroom is one 
of the worst. You go into your bedroom at 
8 to 9 o'clock in the evening, close the doors 
and go to bed, many times with three or four 
in the same room. There you stay until morn- 
ing. If a person should come in along tow- 
ard morning the smell of the air in the room 
would almost make them sick as soon as they 
entered it. 

The result is that you awaken in the morn- 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES' REVEALED. ol 

ing dull and stupid your head feels bad and 
probably aches and you wonder why you feel 
so miserable. The trouble is von ha\e been 
breathing enough carbon gas to almost take 
the life out of you. You should always open 
a window if there is no other ventilation suf- 
ficiently to let all the foul air out of the room. 
If you enter a house after night and can smell 
foul air in it you should immediately ar- 
range to ventilate the room so you cannot 
detect anything of the kind when you come 
in. This will keep the air as pure and healthy 
in the house as it is out doors. 

]\Iany people think the night air is un- 
healthy and for that reason close the house 
up tight n~ soon as night comes and by so 
doing greatly injure their health. The night 
air is not unhealthy as is proven by people 
who are out every night and enjoy as good 
health as people who sleep all night. Trav- 
eling and camping out is very healthy, be- 
cause the person gets pure air all the time, 
day and night. All that is necessary is to 
prevent a draught of air from striking you 



5 8 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

so as to aive you a cold and close up the 
pores of the skin so as the stop the exhala- 
tion from the skin. 

THE SKIX. 

The skin is a very important organ and 
when in good condition the average sized 
person throws off on an average of 30 ounces 
of waste material every twenty-four hours. 
If the pores are closed by taking cold or from 
a plastic material being dep sited in the con- 
nective tissues this waste is kept in the sys- 
tem or must be thrown off through other 
channels, which is seldom done. If the waste 
is kept in the system it will poison the blocd 
and produce disease. If thrown off through 
(the channels it overtaxes them and in a 
short time they become weak and tired out, 
when disease is liable to set in. 

Xo person can enjoy good health if the 
pores of the skin are closed up. Therefore 
it is necessary to keep the skin clean and in 
good condition which can generally be done 
ly frequent bathing, but when a plaslle tie- 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES- - B5V.EAJJ@D. - 59 

posit in the connective tissues just under the 
skin it will be necessary to sweat -the person 
right good to drive it out through the skin 
and then wash it off so it will not 'be absorbed 
and carried back into the system; again.. .After 
bathing the person should be thoroughly rub- 
bed with a coarse towel until the skin takes 
on a good glow." Thia.will get up a good cir- 
culation, close the pores of the skin and keep 
the person from taking cold. The skin is the 
part that conies in contact with substances 
which we feel and if .not in good condition 
the sense )f touch is net acute and we cannot 
discern the feeling of anything correctly, and 
may think it -entirely-, different from what it is. 
The skin acts as a covering for -the whole 
body and when in a good healthy condition 
produces a beautiful complexion, but when 
diseased it oftentimes becomes rough, scaly 
or pimples come out on the. face so they spoil 
the icomplexiori by making the skin rough and 
unsightly. In a healthy condition; it is soft 
and smooth, adding beauty to both hands and 
face. The skin cannot be kept in a good 



60 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

healthy condition only by keeping it clean of 
all dirt, grease or deposits of every kind. As 
Professor Scudder used to say, "Cleanliness 
is the next thing to Godliness and in sickness 
it's ahead of it." ■ 

THE MOUTH. 

The mouth is of much importance and 
should always be kept clean. Every person 
should wash the teeth clean after each meal, 
for if the food is left on the teeth it will 
soon begin to decay, which is very unhealty, 
as you are constantly inhaling the poisonous 
vapor produced by it, also swallowing it. Not 
only that but it soon starts the teeth to decay- 
ing and that interferes with the mastication of 
the food. 

All food should be well masticated before 
it is SY/allowcd, for if it is not it requires a 
great deal more work to digest it. No Sub- 
stance should be swallowed which cannot be 
well masticated. Tough meat and other food 
which cannot be masticated should be thrown 
out instead of being swallowed. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 01 



THE STOMACH. 

Next we take the stomach which is the 
receptacle for the food and also performs an 
important part of digestion when in healthy 
condition but when diseased will cause lots 
of trouble ; therefore should be kept in a good 
healthy condition a person should always be 
careful not to eat anything which disagrees 
w T ith the stomach for if you do it is liable to 
derange the stomach and make you sick. 

You should never eat enough to over-dis- 
tend the stomach so as to cause any distress 
or disagreeable feeling in the stomach. It is 
a good idea not to eat unless you are hungry 
for if the stomach is in condition to digest 
food it will call for it but when tired and 
weak it wants to rest and hence does not call 
for food. 

Its a mistaken idea that a person must eat 
anyway whether they are hungry or not, for 
if food is put into the stomach when it is not 
in condition to digest it it is sure to do more 
harm than good. , (J 



There are many more people who arc fed 
to death tiian are starved 10 aeath. I believe 
that people &3 n rule eat from one-fourth to 
one-third more than is necessary and when- 
ever a person cats more than is necessary 
they are injuring themselves and sooner or 
later they must suffer for so doing. There 
are but few persons who are not troubled more 
or less with their stomach, and the cause is 
over-eating or eating improper food ninety- 
nine times out of 100. 

• If you want a good healthy stomach, one 
that will not cause you any trouble, take 
proper care of it and you .will have one. 

THE BOWELS. 

The bowels finish the process of digestion. 
The nutriment is absorbed from them to sup- 
port tne ^yctem, when the bowels become 
torpid and inactive the process of digestion 
is diminished or stopped and the secretions 
are a.ike diminished or stopped. Therefore 
the person becomes weak, having nothing to 
support the strength. For this reason the 



HIDDEN MY&TEKIES REVEALED, 63 

bowels should always be kept in a good 
healthy condition which can generally be 
done by proper food, exercise and regular 
habits. A person should have a regular time 
to evacuate the bowels and should make an 
effort at that time every day to have the 
bowels move. 

If they do that they will seldom if ever be 
constipated. The habit of putting off the 
movement of the bowels from time to time 
is the cause of constipation oftener than any- 
thing else and should never be done. Eub- 
bing and needing the bowels two or three 
times a day, plenty of exercise in the open 
air with a glass of cold water or hot water on 
rising in the morning, together with regular 
effort at stool will overcome almost any case 
of constipation and is much better than tak- 
ing medicine for the purpose. 

THE KIDNEYS. 

The kidneys secret? tlie urine and should 
be kept in good working condition by rubbing 
the back gocd with the ha^ds once or twice a 



*U BUBOES MYSTEBIES REVEALED. 

day. 

t::e bladdee. 

The bladder is the receptacle for the urine. 
The mine enters the bladder a drop at a time 
from the kidneys. It is retained in the blad- 
der until passed from the body. Many times 
the bladder becomes irritated and causes the 
person to urinate often, and they think the 
kidneys are affected, whereas the whole trou- 
ble is in the bladder. A cloth wrung out of 
jhot water and laid over the bladder will gen- 
erally remove this trouble. 

Many people injure the bladder by retain- 
ing the urine too long, thereby over-distend- 
ing it. and by so doing either weaken it or 
cau-e irritation. 

When a person has a desire to empty the 
bladder they should do so at once, or in a 
short time. 

FOOD AND DRIXK 

The food should alwavs be in a good state 
of preservation, for food that is tainted or 
spoiling, as it ;i= ccrmnenly called, is entering 



HH&QEX mysteries: REVEALED- v *>5 

a state of decomposition and is dangerous ta 
health. 

As a rule food should be well cooked, espe- 
cially meat, it is very dangerous to be eating 
raw meat. As a rule the food which the ap- 
petite calls for is the i proper food to eat. 

I think nature the best judge of what a 
person should eat, as all people cannot eat the 
same food. A person should always eat food, 
that agrees with them and should use good 
judgment and reason. If food is heavy or 
causes any disagreeable feeling in the stomach 

vou should let it alone. Water is the health- 

t/ 

iest drink a person can use, and should be 
used at the table instead of tea and coffee. 
All drinks except water and milk *are artificial 
and their use acquired by habit. The. use of 
which is causing the ruination of people's 
health by the thousands every year. 

EXERCISES. 

Exercise is of the greatest importance to 
health and no person can enjoy good health 
without exercise. Every person should take 



fit It nit i-.va nxiles of outdoor exercise every 
day, and many require live or six to keep 
them in good condition. The healthiest ex- 
ercise is on foot. It is much better than rid- 
ing, as it brings all the muscles into mo- 
tion. A little run sufficient to make a person 
breathe fast and fill the lungs well with air 
gets up a good circulation, forces the blood 
linore rapidly through the capillaries, expands 
the lungs ! and has a beneficial effect every 
way. 

It is more a lack of active exercise that 
causes people in the cities to have poor health 
than the poisoned atmosphere, especially wo- 
men, who are afraftl to take a quick step on 
the street for fear someone will laugh at them, 
while the woman in the country gets out and 
run^ the chickens and pigs, and other active 
exercise, and as a rule are much healthier 
tlnn the women in towns and cities. For 
those who do not wish to take active exercise 
out of doors the gymnasium is a good thing, 
swinging the war clubs and dumbbells, skip- 
ping the rope, punching the hxig, anything to 



HIDDEN MYSTHHTES REVEALED. 67 

get up a good circulation and produce good 
breathing. The majority of people, especial- 
ly women, do not breathe deep enough. Every 
person should innate the entire lungs. It ex- 
pands the chest and cleanses the blood much 
better than shallow breathing. 

CLOTHING. 

The clothing should be of the material 
which suits the person best. Woolen clothing 
is supposed to be preferable for a majority, 
but some people cannot wear wool next to the 
skin. Others it is not as healthy for as cot- 
ton. So each one must choose for themselves. 
The clothing should be warm enough to keep 
one comfortable, not too warm or too cold. 
The clothing should be light and close woven 
for winter, but loose woven for summer, free- 
ly admitting the air and allowing the escape 
of the poisons exhaled from the skin. The 
feet should be kept warm and dry in damp 
or cold weather, for a person will take cold 
easier by getting the feet wet than any oilier 
way. 



t)8 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

The head should always be kept cool. 
Wrapping the head in furs is a bad practice, 
for if you wear them and get used to having 
them on and happen to go out without them 
you are almost sure to take cold. 

But if you simply wrap the head and neck 
sufficient to keep from freezing or chilling too 
much and you happen to step out without 
them on it will not hurt you and is much 
healthier. 

MIND AND BODY. 

The mind controls the body and the body 
influences the mind. Therefore it is neces- 
sary that both be kept in as good condition as 
possible. 

Is the mind capable of producing physical 
ailment ? Yes, and it is also capable of keep- 
ing the body in good health many times. 

Some y^ars since I read in a school book a 
lesson I have not yet forgotten. The ques- 
tion was: Who are the greatest physicians? 
The answer was: Dr. Diet. Dr. Hiett and 
Dr. Merryman. There is no doubt of the 



HIDDEN MYSTEBIES REVEALED, £9 

correctness of the answer. Dr. Diet keeps the 
digestive system in good condition to digest 
the food and secrete the nutritious particles 
from it, to build up and strengthen the sys- 
tem. 

Dr. Hiett keeps up high spirits, keeping us 
hopeful, always looking forward for the best, 
thinking we can and we will do what is for 
us to do, that if we determine to do we can 
do anything we undertake. Throwing dull 
broodings to the rear, looking upon slight ail- 
ments as simply a reminder that we have vio- 
lated the laws of health and that it will all 
pass off in a few days, never allowing us to 
worry cr fret over anything. 

Dr. Merryman makes us merry. We whis- 
tle, sing, play musical instiuments or engage 
in other sport to liven us up, and cause us to 
forget for a few moments the cares and toils 
of life, making ourselves happy and enliven- 
ing others and making t\em happy aho. The 
mind exercises a powerful influence over the 
body, as is mrde manife-t in cases called home 
sick. A person will get so home sick they 



7 ( > HIDDEN MYSTKBIE£> REVEALED. 

cannot eat and really became a k. Al-o in 
hysteric-, whe.e the disease is ne rly all im- 
agination, some people wi.l fai^t at the sght 
of blood, others will vomit if thev look at 
anything of a sickening, disgusting charac- 
ter or from some one else teilino: a sickening 
6torv. Xow a 1 these are impressions made 
upon the mind and transmitted to the part 
by the mind. No one can doubt the^e state- 
ments, for you have all seen them for your- 
selves and know they are true. Many times 
we see pec pie doing things and wonder how 
they can stand it to go through with such 
things. For instance, 1 knew a man who was 
shot through just forward of the backbone 
and a litrle below the ribs with an ounce 
ball, the ball passing clear through the body, 
lie was captured, held prisoner three days, 
ran away and was three weeks getting back 
to his regiment. That was in the war of 
'tfl- : 65 ard the man is living yet and was in 
good health a few monrhs ago. 

You sav: How on mrth did he ever stand 
it. I will say his mind carried him through, 



HIDCE^ MYSTERIES KEVEALED. 71 

that determination of will power. He said 
within himself ? I will not die, I will get well, 
and that will power carried him through. 

How did Abraham Lincoln get to be presi- 
dent of the United States % By that unyield- 
ing will which was characteristic of the man. 
I can split rails, chop wood, make my own 
education, teach school, throw down the best 
wrestler, and when ke decided to be president 
he fought his way through and was elected* 
Thus from a poor orphan boy he rose to the 
highest place in the nation, and in the hearts 
of the American people occupies a place sec- 
ond to none. 

If the mind of man is so powerful as to pro- 
duce the results as stated and thousands more 
could be produced were it necessary to pro* 
cure them. Who can doubt that the mind 
has a most powerful influence over the body 
and that we control our bodies to a very great 
extent by the influence of the mind over the 
body ? For instance, a person feels bad, they 
get discouraged, give up and go to. bed. They 
can't get up, they feel so bad, when thousands 



7i HIDDLX ^IVSTilKIES UEVEALED. 

of people are working every day who arc lots 
worse off than they are. 

All that is the matter is they exert ru will 
power to legist disease. The best treatment 
that class of patients could have would be a 
good blacksnake whip well applied until they 
get up ambition enough to move. For about 
all they need is plenty of exercise in the open 
air. Get out of the hous.e, think about doing 
something and they will soon get well. 

If you feel bad, say within yourself, I am 
not going to get sick. I will throw this oil, 
and nine times out of ten you will do what 
you say, save yourself lots of suffering and 
perhaps a doctor bill. 

Always keep the mind in a cheerful condi- 
tion, look on the bright side of everything and 
never give up. 

As has been stated, the condition of the 
body has an influence on the mind and should 
be kept in as gocd health as po&iUe by proper 
diet, drink and exercise. 

When a person first begins to feel bad, if 
they will get out in the open air and take 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES KEVEALED. ^3 

plenty of active exercise it will generally ef- 
fect a cure in a few days. 

CHAPTER VII. 

WHAT IS HEALTH. 

Health is a sound, hale, condition, free 
from ache, pa'n or disease, in which all the 
organs perform their functions with pleasure 
and freedom, both mind and body. 

WHAT IS DISEASE. 

Disease is an alteration of the normal vital 
processes of the body or mind, under the in- 
fluence of some unnatural, injurious condi- 
tions, called the hurtful cause, or a departure 
from health. This departure is always in one 
of three directions, below, above or from. The 
rational treatment is to correct the wrong, 
and is dore in a systematic way when cor- 
rectly treated. If the departure is above, 
bring it down ; if below, bring it up> if from 
being it tack, but in doing this one should 
always remember thft they are dealing with 



k± IllXJitfSX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

vitality and that sufficient time should be al- 

*i ...... 

Lowed for medicine to influence the system 
back to its normal condition, for if you force 
it back generally as soon as the effect of the 
medicine is gone, it will depart again. The 
f)bject is to remove the cause, and a cure will 
soon follow, but if the cause is not removed, 
it will be impossible to effect a cure. 

People are in the habit of calling different 
symptoms disease, but which are only the re- 
sult of disease. Fever is not disease, inflam- 
mation is not, pain is not, ache is not and 
many other things, such as dysentery, diar- 
rhoea, constipation, none of which are dis- 
eases. They are symptoms of disease, telling 
us that disease is in the system, or the voice 
of nature calling for help. 

Disease is a physiological departure from 
health which produces these symptoms, and 
the physiological condition is what you have 
to treat if you cure your patient, regardless 
£»f the name of the disease, for the name is 
nothing to base a treatment on. 

T will now take up the remedies and give 



IIIDDEX MASTERIES v REVEA£M). 75 

the characteristic symptoms calling for each, 
then: when you see those symptoms you know 
what to give, for like causes produce like ef- 
fects in medicine as in everything else, and 
the same cause that produces a symptom or 
indication . in one disease produces it in one 
hundred and the remedy , that will remo^ 
this cause in one case will remove it in one 
hundred. And an order to effect a cure you 
must remove the cause. 

; : CHAPTER y in. : 

MATERIA MEDIC A. v ;_ i 

• Aconite,, Fluid Extract.— The small fre- 
quent - pulse, with increased* temperature, 
quinsy, croup, irritant diarrhoea and dysen- 
tery. , .(Drops, 5 to 15 ? ; water, 4. oz.) Dose, 
a teaspqonfuL every 1, 2 or 3 hours. 

Aloes, Fluid Extracts— The patient eVacu- 
a%s the bowels' with difficulty, (Drops 5 to 
15 ; water, ;4 oz. ) Bo?ey# teaspoonful every 
1 ,to J^liQujrs. / :r ,: 4 



76 



HIDDEN MYSTEBIES BEVEALED. 



Ammonia, Bromide. — Convulsive action of 
the muscles, nervous, shaky with prostration 
or great weakness of nerve power. (1 drachm 
to 1 oz. to water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful 
every 1 to 3 hours. 

Ammonia Iodide. — Dizziness, difficultv in 
controlling the voluntary muscles, dull head- 
ache. (2 drachms to water 4 oz.) Dose, a 
teaspoonful 4 or 5 times a day. 

Appis (tincture of honey bee). — Itching 
with burning, stinging sensation of the sur- 
face or of the urinary organs. (Drops, 10 to 
20 to water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 
1 to 4 hours. 

Apocynum Canabinum, Fluid Extract 
(Canadian Hemp). — Fullness of eyelids, 
swelling of the feet, or of any superficial cel- 
lular tissue, dropsy. (Drops 5 to 20 to water 
4 oz. ) Dose, a teaspoonful 2 to 4 hours. 

Asclepias Tuberosa, Fluid Extract (Pleu- 
risy Root). — Pulse strong, vibratile, dry con- 
stricted skin and general lack of moisture, 
with elevated temperature, pains acute and 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALS!;. 4 7 

seemingly dependent upon motion, pleurisy. 
(1 to 2 drachms to 4 oz. of water.) Dose, a 
teaspoonful every 1 to 2 hours. 

Acid Muriatic. — A deep red tongue, with 
brown coat and sordes on teeth. (Add drops 
10 to 20 to water 4 oz.) Dose a teaspoonful 
every 1 to 3 hours. A little sugar may bo 
added if desired. 

Acid Nitric. — Tongue a little more than 
normal red, violet color of tongue or of 
phylm over it. (Drops 10 to 20 to water 4 
oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 2 hours. 

Acid Sulphuros. — Tongue of normal red- 
ness, coated with dirty, pasty, yellowish coat, 
membranes of throat look full and lifeless, 
the skin has a rusty and lifeless appearance. 
Dose, 5 to 30 drops in water every 3 hours. 

Caution: This is not sulphuric acid. 

Baptisia, Fluid Extract (Wild Indigo). — 
face full, dusky purplish red, like one exposed 
to cold a long time, tongue and mucous mem- 
branes have the same appearance. ( Add 5 
to 20 drops to 4 oz. of water.) Dose, a tea- 



78 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

spoonful every 1 to 3 hours for gargle in sore 
throat. 2 drachms to 2 oz. water. Gargle 
thethioat every 1, 2 or 3 hours. 

Belladonna, Fluid Extract (deadly Xight 
Shade). — Eyes are dull, pupils dilated, dull- 
ness of intellect, disposition to sleep. (Add 
5 to 10 drops to 4 oz. of water.) Dose, a tea- 
spoonful 1 to 3 hours. 

Bromide of Potassium.' — Sleepless and 
restless, with vigorous circulation, without 
fever, epilepsy or convulsions, irritation of 
sexual organs, increased desire for sexual in- 
tercourse. (Add y 2 to 1 drachm to water 4 
oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 1, 2 or 3 
hours. 

Bryona, German Tincture. — Sharp, lanci- 
nating pains made worse by motion. (5 to 20 
drops to water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful 
everv 1, 2 or 3 hours. 

Cactus Grandiflorus, Fluid Extract (Xight 
Blooming Series). — Irregular movement of 
the heart. Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 
hours. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 79 

Chionanthus (Fringe Tree) Fluid Extract. 
— Pain in stomach and liver simulating colic, 
sometimes extending to abdomen, intense pain 
in region of the liver, extending to navel with 
great prostration and sometimes nausea, yel- 
lowness of the white of the eye, yellow skin 
jaundice. Dose, drops 2 to 10, 4 or 5 times a 
day. 

Chloroform. — Dose, 1 to 10 drops, 3 to 5 
times a day, in severe chills and to dissolve 
gall stone. 

Cinnamon^ Tincture of the Oil. — 1 drachm 
of oil to 8 oz. of alcohol, passive bleeding 
from any part, especially from the uterus 
after child birth or abortion. Dose, 20 to 60 
drops as often as necessary. 

Collinsonian (Stone Root) Fluid Extract. 
— A sensation as if some foreign body was 
lodged in the rectum., with contraction of the 
muscles of part affected contracted and pain- 
ful perenium. (Drops 10 to 30, water 4 oz.) 
Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours, as 
necessary. 



80 IlIDOfi^ MYSTERIES EEVEALEJD. 

In minister's sore throat, or cough and 
hoarseness caused from using the voice and 
irritation of the neck of the bladder and ure- 
tha. (1 oz. to syrup 3 oz.) Dose, a teaspoon- 
ful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Cypiipediam, Fluid Extract (Lady Slip- 
per). — In nervousness and sleeplessness from 
lack of power or in action. ( Dose, drops 2 
to 20 every 1 to 3 hours.) 

Colocynth, Fluid Extract. — Cutting pains 
in the abdomen with diarrhoea and dysentery, 
straining increasing the pain. (Drops 5 to 
10, water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 
hour. 

Digitalis, Fluid Extract (Fox Glove). — 
The stroke of the puise is feeble; current of 
blood easily stopped by pressure; sound of 
the heart faint. (Drops 12 to 20, water 4 
oz.) JLose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Dioscorea, F. E. (Wild Yam). — Abdominal 
pain with soreness on pressure. (Drops 10 
to 1 drachm, water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoon- 
every 3 hours until soreness is removed. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 81 

Erigeron, Oil of (Canada Fleabane.)- — 
In active bleeding with strong and slow pulse. 
Also in irritation of the neck of the bladder 
and in bloody flux. Dose, 1 to 5 drops every 
1 to 3 hours. 

Eupatoriam Purpureum, Fluid Extract 
(Queen of the Meadow). — Urine scanty, 
milky ; weight in loins ; skin hot, dry and con- 
stricted; dropsy. (Drops 10 to 1 drachm 
water 4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 
3 hours. 

Iron by Hjydrogen.— ^Pallid, transparent 
skin, blueness of veins, dull, heavy pains in 
back of head. Dose 1 to 5 drops after each 
meal. 

Iron, Muriate Tincture.— Erysipelatous 
disease, the part affected being deep red; 
tongue deep red, mucous membranes somer 
what blue and showing same redness. Dose, 
drops 5 to 10 every 3 hours. 

Gelseminum, Fluid Extract. — Flushed 
face, bright eyes, contracted pupils, increased 
heat of head, cannot sleep, pain in entire 



82 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

head, urine jpassed -iii small quantities and 
with difficulty, with sense of irritation in the 
urinary organs. (Drops 10 to 40, water 4 
pz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Gentian, Fluid Extract. — Sense of depres- 
sion in region of stomach, associated with 
physical and mental weariness. Dose, drops 
1 to 5 every 3 hours. 

Haruamelis, Distilled Extract (Witoh Ha- 
zel). — Fullness and relaxation of tissues; 
fullness of veins, inclined to dilation, sensa- 
tion of fullness, weight and dragging, laxness 
of muscles, increased secretion of mucous. 
Dose, drops 1 to 30 every 1 to 3 hours, as a 
local application; 1 part to 3 of water. - 

Hydrastis! ( Goldenseal ) . — Irritation with 
enfeebled circulation, whether used as an in* 
ternal remedy or as a local application. (Sul- 
phate or phosphate of hydrastia, grains, 1 to 
3, water i oz.) . Dose, a teaspoonful every 
3 hours. 

Ignatk Been, Fluid Extract. — Horning 
chills, fe^ls better out of doors, deep-seated 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED* 83 

and dull pain in stomach, feeling as if the 
stomach was dragged backwards ; weak, empty 
feeling in stomach; pain shooting from liver 
to shoulder; dark circles under the eyes, 
(Drops 5 to 15, water 4 oz.) Dose, a tea- 
spoonful every 3 hours. 

Ipecac, Fluid Extract — Irritation of mu- 
cous membranes x with increased secretion,. 
Diarrhoea, dysentery, iiiflammationf* of the 
lungs. (Drops 10 to 30, water 4 oz.) Dose > 
a teaspoonf ul every 1 to 3 hours. 

Iodide of Potassium.' — Pale, leaden-colored 
tongue, usually full. (Dose, grains 5 to 10 
every 3 hours.) 

Iris versicular, Fluid Extract (Blue Flag). 
— Fullness of throat, enlargement of thyrad 
glands, fullness of throat with pulsation of 
arteries. (Drops 10 to 30, water 4 oz.) Dose, 
a teaspoonf ul every 3 hours, and as a local 
application in goitre ( bigneck). 

Lepti-ndria, Fluid Extract.— Dull, heavy 
pain in region of the liver, fullness of abdo- 
men, tongue coated, markedly white but not a 



84 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEAiLED. 

fur*' is thirsty but cannot drink water, rest- 
less and cannot sleep. (Drops 10 to 30, water 
4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 3 hours. 

Lobelia, Fluid Extract. — Sense of fullness 
and oppression in region of the heart; op- 
pression of the chest and difficult respiration, 
sharp, lancinating pain starting in heart and 
radiating to left shoulder and arm; mucous 
rattling in chest ; full, oppressed pulse, weak 
pul?e. Drops, 10 to 1 drachm, water 4 oz.) 
Dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Macrotys, Fluid Extract (Black Cohosh). 
- — Muscular pains; uterine pains with tender- 
ness ; false pains, irregular pains, rheumatism 
of the uterus ; painful menstruation ; an anti- 
iheumatic when the pulse is open, the pain 
paroxysmal, the skin moist and loose. (Drops 
10 to 1 drachm, water 4 oz.) Dose, a tea- 
spoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Xitrate of soda, violet color of tongue, 
transparent ; the tongue being somewhat pal- 
lid below ; tongue full, swollen, covered with 
a white or vellowish mucous. Grains 10 to 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES EEVEA1.ED. 85 



2 diaeLms, water 4 oz. Dose, a teaspoonful 
every 3 hours. 

Xux vomica, Fluid Extract. — Sallow, ex- 
pressionless . tongue ; with nausea and vomit- 
ing; sallow, expressionless mouth, with tinge 
of yellow ; abdominal pain pointing at navel ; 
tumid abdomen, with paroxysmal pain; sal- 
lowness around the mouth in action of the 
bowels and a tendency to constipation. 
(Drops 5 to 20, water 4 oz.) Dose, a tea- 
spoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Potassium Chlorate. — Fetid Locha dis- 
charge, fetid breath foeture as from decay- 
ing flesh. (Grains 10 to 2 drachms to water 
4 oz.) Dose, a teaspoonful every 2 to 4 hours, 
also as a gargle in sore throat and vaginal in- 
jection in whites if above symptoms present. 

Potassium Nitrate (Salt Petre). — Scanty 
urine with difficult respiration difficult swal- 
lowing as from paralysis of muscles of throat ; 
enlargement of tonsils; burned to relieve 
asthma. (1 to 2 drachms, water 4 oz.) Dose; 
a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 



86 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

•Potassium, Permanganas. — A^ a local ap- 
plication only, in phlegmonous erysipelas, in 
inflammation where tissues have lost vitality 
and are inclined to slough ; in the early stage 
of felons and boils, to arrest their progress, 
ordinary use. ( 1 drachm to water 1 pint, for 
the last 10 grains to water 1 oz. For injec- 
tion in gonorrheoa 5 grains to water 2 oz.) 
Inject a teaspoonful 2 or 3 times a day. 

Potassium sulphate. The color of the skin 
is dirty, tissues full and sodden, skin scaly, 
wounds heal slowly^ inflame and superate. 
Dose, 5 to 10 grains three times a day in a 
glass of water. 

Phytolacca I Poke Root) F. E. This is 
the remedy for inflammation of the breasts, 
for nursing Bore mouth of children, enlarge- 
ment of the uteru^ enlargement of the sub- 
maxillary and cervical lymphatic glands from 
•sore mouth and throat, and for diphtheria. 
The most prominent indications for it in or- 
dinary cases are somewhat leaden colored 
tongue, very little coated, and looking slick 



MIDDEN MYSTERIES EEVEALED. 87 

as if coated with some glutinous material (Va 
to 2 drachms to water 4 oz.) ; dose a teaspoon- 
ful every 1 to 3 hours, in inflamed breasts 1 
oz. to 3 ozs. of water, bathe the breasts 3 or 
4 times a day or apply a cloth wet with it. 

Padophyllum F. E. Fullness of veins, 
fullness of face, fullness of abdomen, full- 
ness of tongue with pasty secretions, the skin 
a dirty yellow (drops 10 to 60, water 4 ozs.) ; 
dose a teaspoonf ul every 4 Tiours. 

Polygonum F. E. (water pepper). Want 
of monthly flow, chilly sensation in back, ten- 
sive pain, pain of legs, skin liarsh and inac- 
tive (1 to 3 drachms, water 4 ozs.) : dose a 
teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Pulsatilla, F. E. Patient is nervous, des- 
pondent, restless, sleepless; pulse soft, easily 
compressed, eyes dull, dark line under them ; 
excitement of the reproductive organs, fear 
of impending danger, inclined to look on the 
dark side, mothlies arrested, tardy, scanty 
(drops 10 to 30, water 4 ozs.) ; dose a tea- 
spoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 



88 HIDDEN MYSTEBIES EEVEALED. 

Quinine sulphas. Periodicity the pulse be- 
ing soft, skin soft, tongue moist and clean- 
ing, nervous system free from irritation ; dose 
2 to 5 grains everv three hours. 

Rhus, tox (Poison oak) F. E. Small sharp 
pulse ; pain in forehead, especially in left eye 
burning pain, thin scalding discharge from 
the nose* In skin troubles there is burning 
and stinging, the chid is nervous and starts 
in its sleep as if frightened (drops 2 to 8 
Water 4 oz.), dose a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 
hours ; in chronic diseases 4 times a day. 

Sanguinarian Nitrate. — Tickling or irrita- 
tion of throat, with cough ; sense of irritation 
in nose; uneasiness at upper end of breast 
bone; sense of uneasiness and burning in 
stomach* with nervousness (grains 1 to 3 
syrup and w^ater 4 oz.) ; dose a teaspoonful 
every 1 to 3 hours* 

Ergot, I\ E.— -Dullness of intellect, dis- 
position to sleep, dizziness, tissues full, inela - 
tie, pulse oppressed, fullness of abdomen, 
flowing . creeping like something on the skin 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 89 

(dose, 1 drop to 1-2 drachm every 1-2 to 3 
hours, as necessary). 

Senico Gracilis (life root) F. E.— En- 
largement of uterus, with uterine or eervicle 
leucorrhea (or whites), difficulty in urina- 
tion (10 to 60 drops water 4 oz) ; dose, ft 
teaspoonful every 3 hours. 

Soda Sulphite. — The tongue is broad, 
palid and has a dirty coat (2 to 10 grains 
every 3 hours in half glass of water) ; for 
mucus vomiting (1-2 grain in a spoonful of 
water everv 15 to 30 minutes. 

Sticta. — Cough with pain in shoulders, ex- 
tending to back of head, rheumatic pains> 
with soreness of shoulders, eervicle region 
and back of head (drops, 10 to 20 to water 4 
oz.) ; dose, a teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours. 

Sulphur. — The skin is dirty, sallow, 
brownish, and the mucous membrane has a 
dirty hue. Dose, 1 to 5 grains 3 times a day. 

Veratrum Viride, F. E. — The pulse is fre- 
quent, full, strong and bounding, tissues full, 
not shrunken ; surface flushed with blood. In 



90 IIIDDE2v MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

erysipelas the part presents scmcwLat the 
appearance of an ordinary iniiauuTiatiui 
^ drops 5 to 15 to water 4 oz.) ; dose, a tea- 
spoonful every 1 to 8 hours ; as a locai appli- 
cation in erysipelas, 1 drachm to 2 oz. of 
water. 

Viburnem Prunifolium, F. E. (Black 
Haw). — This is the remedy to arrest abor- 
tion or miscarriage, cramp-like pains, heavy 
weight or bearing down in lower part of ab- 
domen or across the hips (coupling), expul- 
sive pains. During labor if the pains become 
spasmodic, dose from 5 to 40 drops from 15 
minutes to 3 hours, according to the severity 
of the case. 

It is not supposed that all the symptoms 
named with each remedy will be found in 
one ea.-e ^ery often. Each one given is an 
indication for the remedv. In a few cases 
a single remedy will cure the case, but in a 
majority two or more will be required, but 
never give a remedy not called for by the 
characteristic symptoms. It is better to give 



HIPDEN MYSTERIES SEYEAJ.EP, 91 

no medicine than to give the wrong medicine. 
Do not be in a great hurry ^ they will not 
often die from the want of medicine, More 
people die from having too much medicine 
than die fox* the want of it, 

COMPARATIVE DOSE OF MEDICINE 
FOR CHILDREN, 

The dose given is for adults and should he 
reduced for children ace 01 ding to age and 
the strength of the patient. For patients 14 
to 16 years old two-thirds; for patients 7 to 
10 years old one-half; for patients 4 to 6 
years old, one-third ; for patients 3 years old 3 
one-fourth ; for patients 1 year old, one- 

eiahth. 

<„• 

Common measure — A teaspoon holds 1 
dra whzrx. a tablespoon holds 1-2 oz. 



ILIDDEiN MYSTERIEb REVEALED. 



CHAPTER IX. 

MEDICAL COMPOUNDS 

With directions for preparing and using. 

AXTI-BILIOUS PHYSIC. 

This is one of the best and safest purga- 
tives known. It is speedy in its operation 
and always free from any danger or deleter- 
ions effects. It may be given in all cases 
where a purgative is needed and to persons 
of all ages* 

Take pulverized jalap, 4 02., finely pul- 
verized ; senna, 8 oz. ; pulverized cloves, 1 
oz. ; mix well, and sift through a fine sieve. 
The materials should all be of the best quah 

ity. 

Doss — For a grown person, from one to 
two drachms, or from an even to a heaping 
teaspoon ful, given in a lttle warm water, 
which may be sweet ened. Repeat every ten 
hour until it operates. 
AT/rKRATIVE, OR LIVER POWDER. 

Tako Podophyllm and Sanguinarai, cf 



each ten grains; Leptandrin, twenty grains 3 
Capsicum, ten grains. Mix welL Pose, take 
froin 1 to 5 grains; as an alterative, 1 4 to 1 
grain two or three times a day, 

Hydragogue Cathartic ; Epsom Rait?, 
Dose, 1-4 to a level teaspoonful, dissolved in 
a glass of water. Repeat every 4 hour* un- 
til the bowels move. 

Used in dropsy and all case^ where a wat- 
ery discharge from the bowels is desire \\ and 
in other cases where the point of the tongue 
is a little more than a natural redness and 
coated with dirty, whitish, yellowish pasty 
coat. 

DIAPHORETIC POWDER. 

Take of pulverized opium 30 grains, or 
half a drachm, pulverized Gum Camphor, 2 
drachms; Ipecac, 1 drachm; Bicarbonet of 
Soda,' 1-2 ounce. Mix and triturate well in a 
mortar. 

Dose, 10 grains to 1-2 teaspoonful once in 
3 or 4 hcurs. It is valuable as a sweating 
powder, good in fevers, dysentery and wlie/- 



94 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

ever an anodyne and diaphoretic are needed, 
when to be given as often as once in 2 or 3 
hours, and to be continued a gocd while. It 
should be given in small doses of from 5 to 
10 grains. It acts gently on the skin and 
promotes perspiration without increasing the 
heat of the body. « 

EMETIC POWDER. 

Take pulverized lobelia seed and ipecac, 
of each 2 ounces ; pulverized bloodroot 1 oz. 
Mix. Use when you wish to give an emetic. 
Take a heaping, teaspoonful of the compound, 
pour on it one-half pint of hot water, stir it 
and let it steep for a few minutes. Dose of 
the mixture, 1 teaspoonful every ten min- 
utes for one hour if necessary to produce 
vomiting. At the end of one hour if vomit- 
ing does not occur, give tablespoonful doses 
every ten minutes until it does; letting patient 
drink freely of warm water or mint tea 'dur- 
ing the time, ' ' r . 

This powder sprinkled oh a -cloth spread 
with lard and put on the chest is the best 



HIDDEN MYSTEMES BETE1XED. 95 

application to loosen the cough in case of 
lung fever I have ever used. 

BITTERS. 

Wild cherry bark 1 ounce, gentian root 
one-fourth ounce, golden seal, one-fourth 
ounce, whisky or brandy one quart. Let 
stand three or four days, shaking oceasion- 
allv, then strain off dose one to two ounces 
three or four times a day. Good to strength- 
en the stomach and bowels and the whole 
system. 

ANOTHER FOR SAME. 

Take cubeb berries, black cohosh black 
haw bark of root of each one-half ounce, wild 
cherry bark one ounce, spirits one quart. Let 
stand three or four days, shaking occasion- 
ally. Dose, one to two tablespoonfuls three 
or four times a day. Good for women that 
have female weakness. 

NERVE BITTERS. 

Fluid extract nux vomica one drachm; 
fluid extract of oats one ounce; fluid extract 
of lady slipper one ounce; fluid extract of 



9 6 IIIDDEiN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

black cohosh, one ounce; whiskv or brandy, 
one quart. Dose, a tablespoonful three or 
four times a day. 

COUGH SYRUP. 
Fluid extract lobelia, one drachm; fluid 
extract ipecac, one drachm; fluid extract 
bloodroot, one-half drachm; simple* syrup, 
four ounces. Dose, a teaspoonful every hour 
till cough loosens, then to keep it loose. 

ANOTHER FOE SAME. 

Tincture of winteTgren, one drachm; tine- 
ture of cinnamon, one drachm; peppermint 
essence, one drachm; tincture lavender, one 
drachm ; simple syrup, four ounces. Dose, a 
teaspoonful every one to three hours as nec- 
essary for the cough. 

ANOTHER FOE SAME. 

Xitrate of sangumara, one to two grains; 
water and syrupy four ounces. Dose, a .tea- 
spoonful as necessary for the cough. 

AXOTHEE FOE SAME. 

Hydrate of chloral, ten to f ortygrains ; sim- 
ple syrup, four ounces, Dose^a teaspoonful 



HIDDEN MYSTEEIES EEYEAUED. 37 

as necessary for the cough. 

ANOTHER FOR SAME. 
Honey, four ounces; pine tar, two tea- 
spoonfuls; vinegar, four ounces; water, four 
ounces ; heat five minutes, then strain. Dose, 
a teaspoonful as necessary for cough. 

LINIMENT FOR HARD SWELLINGS. 

Oil of cedar, oil of oreganum, oil of sassa- 
fras, oil of spike, of each one ounce ; sulphuric 
acid one-half ounce (be careful in adding the 
acid or you w T ill have an explosion, better mix 
in a large mouth jar) ; then add alcohol one 
pint. Shake well. This liniment will kill 
ringbone or spavin on a horse and w r ill re- 
duce almost any hard swelling on a person. 
Bathe the part well +wice a day and rub in 
well with the hand. 

LINIMENT FOR SPRAINS. 

Oil cedar, oil sassafras, spirits of turpen- 
tine and spirits of camphor, of each one 
ounce; alcohol, one pint. Bathe the part 
two cr three times a day. 

ANOTHER FOR SAME. 



98 



HIDBEIn MYSTZEIEb LtEVEALED; 



Oil cedar, oil sassafras/ spirits of ammonia 
and spirits of turpentine, each one ounce; 
alcohol, one pint Bathe as necessary. 

LIXBIEXT FOE RHEUMATISM, 

Oil peppermint, oil wintergreen, oil of pen- 
nyroyal, oil of tar, tincture of capsicum and 
spirits of ammonia, cf each one ounce; al- 
cohol, one pint. Bathe the part as often as 
necessary. This is the best liniment for rheu- 
matism I have ever used. 

A CHEAP LIXBIEXT FOB PAIK 
Gasoline, turpentine, kerosene oil and lard, 
equal part-. Must be kept away from the 
fire. Bathe as necessary. 

COMPQUKD S1ILLIXGA LIXBIEXT. 
Oil of stillinga, one ounce; oil of cajuput, 
cne-half ounce ; oil of lobelia, two drachms ; 
alcohol, two ounces; glycerine, one ounce; 
mix. This is the best liniment in quinsy 
and croup I ever saw. Bathe the throat good 
about every two or three hours and give in- 
ternally one or two drops on a lump of sugar 
every one to three hours until cough loosens. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REYEALED. 9U 

In croup I had rather rhik this remedy alone 
than half of the M. D. ? s. Always keep it on 
hand. 

PLASTER. 

Oil linseed, one pint ; oil olive, one ounce ; 
boil them on a slow fire about four hours (or 
until they will cook a feather), then remove 
from the fire and add borax, one-half ounce ; 
red lead, four ounces; sugar of lead, one and 
one-half ounces, all finely powder; d. St^ 
till blood warm, then take out a little, let it 
get cold if not thick enough for plaster, put 
it on the fire again and stir in one ounce of 
turpentine and cook slowly until it is thick 
enough. Be careful not to get it too hot or 
it will burn. This is a good plaster for cuts, 
burns, bruises, swellings or in any case w^here 
you want a good drawing and healing t>la-ter. 
Keep in a tight box so it will not dry up. 
When you wish to use it spread on cloth and 
apply to the affected part. 

KING'S IRRITATING PLASTER. 

Burgundy pitch, one and one-half pound ; 

L.ofC. 



100 HIDDEN MYSTERIEb REVEALED. 

white turpentine, one pound; melt together 
and add three pounds of pine tar. Stir to- 
gether and strain, then stir in finely pow- 
dered mandrake root, blood root, poke root 
and Indian turnip, of each ten ounces. Keep 
in a tight tin box. When you wish to use 
it spread on oil cloth and apply to the part 
and leave on until the skin begins to break 
out in pimples under it, then heat it as warm 
as the person can bear and take it off. The 
specks that remain on the skin should be 
greased with lard or olive oil and rubbed off, 
then grease the skin and when it is healed 
apply the plaster again and leave on as be- 
fore. > ^ 
The plaster is used to draw out soreness 
and swellings. Good in irritation of the 
spine, kidneys or joints. 

EGG PLASTER 

Take the yolk of an egg, stir salt in it 
until it is just thick enough so it will not 
run, then spread on muslin and apply to the 
affected part. Change as often as it gets 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 101 

dry. Used in enlargement of the liver and 
spleen (ague cake) and in any case where 
you want a plaster to draw hard. 

COMMON HEALING SALVE. 
Take rosin and beeswax of each 2 ozs, olive 
oil 8 ozs., melt together, stirring till cold. A 
good healing salve for all ordinary sores. 
BLACK OR ALL HEALING SALVE. 
Take the above while near the boiling 
point, add slowly 4 ozs. of red lead, stirring 
it until nearly cold, then add 2 drachms pul- 
verize camphor gum, stirring well. Good 
wherever a healing salve is required* 
GREEN SALVE. 

Take rosin and beeswax of each 1 oz , 
mutton tallow (or lard) 4 ozs., melt all to- 
gether and stir in 1 drachm pulverized ver- 
digris, and mix well. Useful for old sores, 
ulcers, cancers scrofulous sores, cuts and 
wounds. One of the best salves known. 
EYE SALVE. 

Sulphate of Hydrastis 1 grain, vaseline 1 
drachm, mix well, apply to the eyelids 2 or 



l'-2 HIDDEN HYSTZSIZi 2.LT±L±LLIj. 

3 times a day. Good in chronic inflamma- 
tion when the lashes become hard and stiff 
and cross np, itching lids and for weak or 
weeping eyes. 

DRY EYES 
eline 1 drachm, oil of peppermint 2 
or 3 drops; mix and apply to the lids and 
on the temple 2 or 3 times a day. 
EYE WATEB 
Sulphate of zinc 1 grain, water 1 oz., drop 
1 or 2 drops in the eye and bathe the lids 
3 or 4 times a day. Good in inflammation 
of the . granulated or weeping eyes. 

[ HtSTlOH OF TEE EYE. 
Sulphate of zinc 1 grain, water Vs oz., dis- 
tilled cutTaei of witch hazel % oz., mix 1 
- - in the eye and bathe the lids. 

PAUTPUI SOKE EYES. 

dphate Atropia % frain, cocaine 2 grains, 
water 1 oz., 1 or 2 drops in the eye 2 or 3 
times a day. 

- mmox inwli y.:::atiox oe the 

..EYE. 



HIDDEN- MYSTERIES BEVEALED. 103 

Take gunpowder or young Hyson tea, pour 
hot water over it ju$t enough to cover good 
when it swells up, steep 5 or 10 minutes, 
bathe the eyes good every hour or two and 
bind the leaves on the eye at night. 
EITRULE^T SORE EYES. 

Sulphate of zinc 2 grains, boric acid 3 
grains, water 1 oz., drop one or two drops 
in the eye every hour till the secretions 
change to a healthy condition, then use a 
weaker solution. 

SEAFOAM TO CLEA]\ T THE HjAIR. 

Salts of tartar 1 cz., spirits of ammonia 1 
oz., put in a pint bottle and fill with water, 
wash the scalp twice a week with it, then 
rince good with clean water. This will clean 
the hair of all dirt, grease or dandruff. Then 
oil the hair w T ith the following — 

. HAIR OIL. 

Glycerine and bay rum equal parts, mix, 
oil the hair after washng, will make the hah" 
soft and nice. May be scented with bergn- 
ment or anything den red. 



104: HIDDEIN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

HOW TO PREVENT HAIR FALLING 

OUT. 

Salt 1 oz., water 1 pint; wet the scalp 
good every 2 or 3 days. 

HAIR RESTORATIVE, 
Lac. Sulphur 2 drachms, sugar of lead 1 
drachm, rose water 8 ozs., mix, wet the hair 
and rub well in to the scalp once a day. It 
will change gray hair to its natural color and 
cause new hair to grow on bald heads. 

HAIR GROWTH INCREASED. 

Castor oil 4 oz, Jamaica rum 8 oz., oil of 
lavender 30 drop?, oil of rose 10 drops, tinc- 
.ture of cantharides 1 oz. Shake well before 
iising, anoint the hair and scalp once or 
twice a week. Will increase the growth of 
the hair and prevent baldness. 

LOTION EOR THE ITCH. 

Sulphate of potash 1 oz., water 1 pint; 
wash the affected parts with soap and water, 
then bathe with the lotion once or twice a 
day. 



HIDDEN MYSTERtEb REVEALED. 105 

WASH FOE THE WHITES. 

Boracic acid 1 oz., sulphate of zinc 1 
drachm, hot water one half gallon ; wash # the 
vagina out good with warm salt water, 
then inject 2 oz. of the wash morning and 
and evening. This wash will dense and heal 
up any small sores and in many cases will 
cure gonorrhoea. 

WASH FOE WHITES. 

Salicilic acid % oz., chlorate of potash 1 
oz., water 1 pint; shake ocaslonally until di - 
solved then add water to make % gallon, 
Wash the vagina with warm water then in- 
ject 2 oz. of the wash morning and evening. 
A splendid wash where the discharge is thick 
and yellow or of a glarry appearance. 
VANEEIAL DISEASE-HOW TO PEE- 

VENT. 

Permauo-anate of potash 10 grains, water 
4 oz.. wash the orsan immediately after hav- 
ing sexual intercourse. First wash clean 
Avith soap and water,' then use the wash. I 
have heen selling this wash to prevent catch- 



106 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

ing vaneiral diseases for 20 years and it has 
never failed. In using it be careful not to 
get it on your hands or on the clothing for 
it stains badly. Oxalic acid will remove the 

stain. 

GONOBEHEA— INJECTION FOR. 

Boric acid 1 drachm, sulphate of zinc 10 
grains, hot water 4 oz, inject a teaspoonful 
each time after voiding urine until the dis- 
charge stops ; then 3 times a day. 
CORNS AND WARTS— HOW TO CURE 

Chemically pure nitric acid and muriatic 
acid equal parts, pare the corn to the quick, 
then apply the acid; when it is cooked take 
a sharp-pointed knife, divide the corn from 
the flesh and lift it out : then fill the place 
with vaseline, mutton tallow or put on some 
kind of salve and tie it up for 3 or 4 clays. 
CANCER— HOW TO CURE. 

Take arsenic acid ten grains, lard one 
drachm ; pulverize the arsenic fine and mix 
in tie lard. Apply to the cancer once or 
twice a day. This in three to five davs will 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEALED. 107 

cause the cancer to inflame and get quite sore. 
Then make a salve of carbolic acid crystals 
(melt the crystals by heat) twenty drops, 
lard a heaping teaspoonful. Stir together 
till thoroughly mixed and apply to the cancer 
two or three times a day until the inflamma- 
tion comes out. Then if the cancer is net 
killed so it can be lifted out, take a sharp 
knife and pare off the dead cancer. Then ap- 
ply the arsenic salve as before and continue 
in this way until you get it all clean. Then 
heal up with carbolic salve. At the same 
time give Fowler's solution of arsenic one 
drachm, water four ounces; dose, a teaspoon- 
ful three or four times a day. If symptoms 
of poisoning should occur, which will be 
known by a burning sensation ia different 
parts of the body, stop the arsenic all togeth- 
er and give, muriate tincture of iron five to 
ten drops three times a day until the symp- 
toms pass off. Then go ahead w T ith the treat- 
ment. 

I have cured a number of cancers with this 
treatment and have never had one to return 



108 HIDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEA&ED. 

after it was cured. The internal treatment 
with whatever other treatment the symptoms 
call for should be continued for about three 
months in order to kill the cancer in the 
blood. 

INGROWING TOE NAILS— HOW TO 

CUKE. 

Soak the toe in hot water one-half hour or 
till it gets soft. Then cut three notches in 
the end of the toe nail back to the quick. 
Then raise the corner of the toe nail and push 
some cotton batting under it, as much as you 
can without hurting too bad. Also scrape the 
nail thin on top in the center. Repeat the 
operation twice a week, and I will guarantee 
v. cure in every case. 

scuRvy or the gums and teeth. 

Sulphuric acid ten drops, water one-half 
ounce. Wash the teeth two or three times a 
week. Wash the mouth out immediately 
afterward with strong soda water made by 
dissolving soda in water. Then take fluid ex- 
tract of aloes and licorice, of each one-half 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEALED. 109 

ounce ; tincture of myrrh two ounces, brandy 
one pint. Wash and rub the gums with this 
three times a day. A certain cure. When the 
tartar is cleaned off the teeth stop using the 
acid solution. 

FELONS AND -BOILS. 
Take a strong solution of permanganate of 
potash ; wet them good three or four times a 
day. This will abate nearly every one if used 
when they first start. Also take internally 
sulphide of lime one half grains three times 
a day. 

carbuncle— to cttre. 

When the core shows and is running take 
salts of tartar and sprinkle over it, then moist- 
en with water. It will burn like fire for a 
few minutes. Then cool off and get easy. 
Apply once a day and in a few days the core 
will come out, then heal up with any good 
healing salve. 

SKIN— SOW TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL. 

Take collodion and spread on the surface. 
This is a splendid application in abrasions of 



1 1 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

the skin or to put on small cuts, as it forms 
a perfect coating, keeps the air from the sore 
and will heal it in a short time. It is a good 
application to put on the eye lids when they 
turn in so the lashe3 scratch the . eyeballs. 
Take a camel's hair brush, wet it in the col- 
lodion and draw a lin? across the eyelid about 
£ enterwise. When it dries it will draw the lid 
up and turn it out so as to hold the lashes out 
.of the eye. Sometimes it is necessary to put 
en two or three coats in order to make it 
heavy enough. 

TOOTHACHE. 

Hydrate of chloral twenty grains, gum cam- 
phor twenty grains; ruh in a mortar until it 
liquifies, then add sulphuric ether two 
drachms, cocaine two grains; shake well to- 
gether. Clean the tooth, then wet a piece of 
cotton with the mixture and insert in the 
tooth. If the tooth is not hollow Ipathe it 
good around the- root. . This will stop almost 
any toothache in five to ten minutes. 

ANOTHER FOR SAME. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEALED. 1 1 1 

Wet a piece of cloth with gasoline and hold 
it on the face over the tooth until it gets quite 
hot. 

EARACHE. 

Fluid extract of lobelia ten drops, fluid 
extract of gelseminum ten drops, water one- 
half ounce; mix; warm a little more than 
blood warm and drop four or five drops in the 
ear, as necessary. 

FOR WIRE CUTS. 

Carbolic acid one drachm, glycerine two 
ounces; shake well together. Bathe the cut 
good two or three times a day. 

BITES AND STINGS. 

Bathe the part with spirits of ammonia 
every two or three hours until the poison is 
killed. 

SNAKE bite. 

Strong tincture of iodine. Cut out a little 

flesh where the bite is, then drop the iodine 

in the place as fast as it is absorbed. Also give 

the patient one or two drops internally every 

one, two or three hours, according to the se- 



1 1 2 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

verity of the case. This will cure anv rattle- 
snake bite in from two to four days if taken 
on the start and used as directed. I have cured 
rattlesnake bite with it when the patient was 
bitten on the foot and the eyes were swelled 
half shut. It is the best thing I ever saw for 
snake bite. 

LICE— TO KILL. 

Laid one ounce, peppermint oil twenty 
drops. Mix. Grease the comb and comb the 
hair two or three times a week. 

CRAB LICE. 

Red precipitate ointment. Grease the hair 
lightly with it. Leave on twenty-four hours 
then wash off with soapsuds. In three days 
apply again, It will soon eradicate them. 

GRAY BACKS. 
Boil the clothing in salt water and put a 
little of the precipitate ointment in the seams 
of the clean clothes you put on. 

BEDBUGS. 
W&sh the bedstead good with gasoline once 
or twice a week. 






HIDDEN MYSTERIES KZVZALED. MS 

CHICKEN LICE. 

Kerosene oil one pint, sweet milk one gal- 
lon ; stir together then add water two gallons. 
Stir and w T ash the chickens. 

LINIMENT FOR BIG NECK— 
GOITRE. 

Tincture of iodine and spirits of ammonia 
equal parts; mix together, let stand three or 
four days, shaking it two or three times each 
day, when it will clear up and be about the 
color of rain water. Then take one ounce of 
the mixture and one ounce spirits of camphor, 
two ounces of alcohol ; put in a bottle and 
shake well. Bathe the swelling morning and 
evening, rubbing it in well with the hand. At 
the same time take internally fluid extract, 
blue flag, green root, one to two drachms, 
fluid extract of poke root one drachm, water 
four ounces. Dose a teaspoonfu! four timer 2 
a day. This will cure any case of goitre if 
continued three or four months. It will not 
take the enlargement off entirely always but 
it will take out the serene 3 * rr\d will stop 
its growth so it will r.ct bother. 



114: HIDDEN MYSTEEIES REVEALED. 



CHAPTER X 

NURSING THE SICK. 

The importance of good nursing according 
to scientific principles lias never been prop- 
erly appreciated. When I say that good nurs- 
ing is just as essential to ths recovery of the 
sick as good medical treatment I simply voice 
the sentiment of all who are posted on the 
subject. A very large amount of suffering 
endured by the sick is caused by bad nursing. 
Many times the sick are allowed to lie in a 
dirty bed, with dirty, filthy clothing on them, 
that when the cover is raised the stench al- 
most raises your hat ; or thev lie there for 
davs at a time without the bed or their cloth- 
ing being changed. Is it any wonder they suf- 
fer under such circumstances ? Not only so but 
the person is not bathed, thus keeping all the 
filth on them that is possible. 

In nursrrg a sick person all the laws of 
health should be carefully observed and car- 
ried out, to which I refer the reader as sighted 
under that head. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES BKVKATJST*. 



115 



But in addition to them, I will give fur- 
ther instructions : 

Always keep the patient clean by frequent 
bathing and especially so if they have fever, 
for bathing will reduce the fever and refresh 
the patient. When a patient has a high fever 
they should be bathed every day and many 
times two or three times a day. 

The clothing of the patient should be 
changed every day and clean clothing put on 
after the bath. The sheets should be changed 
at least twice a week and the other covers once 
a week. 

The bed should be stirred up good once or 
twice a day so as to keep it soft and lively. 

The room should be kept well ventilated 
so as to carry out all the impurities of the at- 
mosphere and keep a fresh supply of air in the 
room day and night. It is very oppressive to 
a sick person to be in a close room. 

The floor should be kept clean also. There 
ia much more danger in a dirty floor than 
there is in taking a wet mop and rubbing the 

dirt Off.. .. , . ,;'::■ • . 



Hi 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES SJWEALEL. 



If the patient is very sick or nervous every- 
thing should be kept quiet and not more than 
three parsons should be allowed to go into the 
room at one time, and the patient should be 
allowed to talk but very little. If a door 
squeaks, the hinges should be oiled so they 
will not squeak. The doors should not be 
slammed, but must be closed easily. No whis- 
pering should be allowed where the patient 
can hear or see the persons, for it is liable to 
arouse suspicion that they are dangerously ill 
or are getting worse, and might do them great 
injury. 

The nurse and all those who visit the sick 
should always have a cheerful pleasant ex- 
pression of countenance and no person should 
be allowed to enter the room who cannot con- 
trol themselves and keep up a cheerful ap- 
pearance. 

lAlways speak kindly and pleasantly to the 
patient, but be firm and decisive. Never yield 
to their importunities unless your good judg- 
ment tells you it is right to do what they re- 
quest, but do not be cross with them. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. t J i 

As a rule, it is not best. to. waken a patient. 
Let them have their sleep, as it rests and 
strengthens them. But in waking a patient ; 
always be careful not to excite them, awake 
them carefully. 

When you wish to turn a patient in bed, 
take a position that you can maintain so as not 
to slip or jerk the patient. Then take a firm 
hold on them in such a manner that you can 
turn them without twisting them, then turn 
them over and be sure you have the bed under 
them smooth, so there will be no ridges to 
annoy them. 

Then straighten the covers up nicely, so 
they will feel comfortable. Always try to 
keep the patient as comfortable as possible in 
every respect. 

The room should be kept at a temperature 
of about 66 or 68 degrees Fahrenheit and a 
thermometer should always be kept hanging 
near the bed for the purpose of ascertaining 
the temperature. 

You should always keep a fcccly thermom- 
eter so as to tell the exact heat of the patient. 



1 18 HIDDEN 1IYSTERIE3 liEVEALED. 

The natural temperature is 1/8 degrees. A 
fever heat of 104 is dangerous, and of course 
the higher the more danger and should be 
reduced. 

The object is to keep the temperature as 
near 98 degrees as possible and a good bath 
will reduce the fever about as quick as any- 
thing and can be repeated several times a day 
if necessary. If the patient is too sick to take 
out of the bed, take a wet cloth and bathe 
them with it. 

Always allow a patient plenty of cold water 
but administer it in small quantities at a time, 
frequently repeated. Sometimes where there 
is an excessive thirst a drink of salt water will 
last the patient much longer than pure water. 

Food. — The food should be well cooked 
and in a nice palatable condition. It should 
generally be light, nutritious and easily digest- 
ed, although I have made it a rule when my 
patients were getting better to allow them to 
choose their own diet, but of course gauged 
the amount according to the condition of the 
patient and the quality of the food selected. 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES liEVEAI-ED. 1 19 

Exercise; — -As soon as; the patient is able 
exercise in the open am If too weak to walk, 
take them out in a carriage whenever the 
weather is nice. As soon as they are strong 
enough have them take frequent walks, not 
far at a time, but what they can take with 
comfort. If the weather is bad, have them 
walk around in the house, also swing their 
arms so as to get up a good circulation of 
blood in the arms and chest. A person can 
make considerable exercise by breathing fast 
and deep so as to fill the lungs full of air and 
increase their strength very much by full 
breathing. 

CHAPTER XL 

HYPNOTISM. 

The subject of hypnotism is creating much 
interest and causing people to wonder whether 
such a thing is true or not, but as some of the 
states recognize it as a fact and as it is recog- 
nized as being a great power by which the 
possessor has a very great advantage over oth- 
ers, I deem it necessary that every person 



120 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED; 

should know something of its power and use, 
and also how to apply them. 

To those desirous of acquiring that secret 
and strange influence or peculiar magnetic 
personality, by the use of which people can 
be influenced unconsciously, and which gives 
its possessor a charm of manner and power of 
fascination which are sure to secure and retain 
the respect and esteem of those encountered 
during business and social intercourse, a thor- 
ough understanding and knowledge must be 
gained through the secret laws of the mys- 
terious influences or forces commonly known 
as hypnotic influence, mesmeric power, per- 
sonal magnetism, animal magnetism and mag- 
netic personality. 

In every human being there lies latent a 
subtle and strange power, which very few 
have developed, but which, if developed by a 
knowledge of hypnotism or mental science, 
unfolds the secret power and mysterious laws 
of this power and gives to the possesor an 
irresistible influence over other people, who 
are unconscious of it themselves, because they 



Have no knowledge' of the J exisfen£e or nature 
of this subtle 1 power of ^he human inind. 
• Every observing and intelligent person 
must admit that the human mind or will does 
and is capable of influencing, affecting and 
impressing the minds of other people, and 
that some persons have more influence over 
people than others ; that they have met people 
who could influence them more than others 
could, and that they have at different times 
found people whom they could influence de- 
cidedly more than they could others. 

Beyond all question this demonstrates that 
there is a subtle and invisible force which by 
a thorough understanding of its nature and 
laws and of application can be used to secure 
the affection and esteem of others, and to in- 
fluence people without their knowledge while 
they are upon the street, in the same room, 
on a street car, or in any other place. A sci- 
entific knowledge of hypnotism or mental sci- 
ence gives to those who possess it an inestim- 
able pvA inevitable advantage over those in 
everv walk of life who. have never studied the 



1-i HIDDEN MY3TEKI23 JiSVZJLL&D* 

intellectual faculties of man, uiucfr unfold 
the mysterious laws of aL. personal influencs 
and disclose to the student of psychology the 
strange and wonderful mysteries of Ufe, pas- 
sion and sex. 

This knowledge is most essential to success 
in life and business, and it can be applied sys- 
tematically through life. Every professional 
man, minister and public speaker should study 
psychology or mental science. 

Mental capabilities are developed by a sci- 
entific knowledge and understanding of psy- 
chology or mental science, and the laws of 
application which develop and strengthen the 
.different mental forces which compose the 
psychic or human mind. 

A scientific knowledge of hypnotism, or 
psychology, solves the origin and the perplex- 
ing problems of the origin of disease, and re- 
veals the mental conditions which arc condu- 
cive to health, happiness and success and the 
perverted mental conditions which invite and 
promote disease. It discloses the secret law 
of personal influence; it teaches the student 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES KEVEALED. J 23 

that man is composed of. a. pli^si^al.-b.^dy .ap*l 
mind or soul, and that acknowledge of tire 
laws that govern them constitutes the science 
of hypnotism and mesmerism. 

Personal magnetism, or hypnotic influence, 
is an acquirement that can only be obtained 
by a study of mental science. It is reason- 
able to suppose that a person who has made 
a thorough study of the best method and man- 
ner of influencing people, and proceeds with a 
definite plan and system will be more suc- 
cessful and have a decided advantage over 
those who have no knowledge of the science 
and who attempt to influence others in a hap- 
hazard manner. It is a fact known to all 
who have placed persons in a mesmeric sleep 
that there is transmitted from the operator 
to the subject a magnetic influence or invis- 
ible force. This influence passes from the op- 
erator when his mind is intensely concentrat- 
ed up on the subject. This influence, which is 
stn invisible force, partakes of the nature or 
actual condition of the operator's mind. Now 
these being established facts, psychological 



l-± kiddsx wzarrKRfsa kzvzalkd. 

facts permit die assumption tliat if a person 

can be deeply influenced by the mind oi an- 
other that he will fall into a deep sieip, this 
puwer can, when properly applied, be used to 
influence people, thereby causing them to do 
things that they would not think of doing 
were they not influenced. 

When it becomes the intention of a man to 
cause another to do something against his will, 
he first determines in his own mind to suc- 
d. It is this determination which compels 
the other man to obey his wish. Without 
this determined condition of mind, he would 
accomplish nothing. To influence a pei 
requires tact and skill which can be obtained 
L-niy i v close study upon the part of the 
student. Certain mental qualifications and 
capabilities must be d :<:!. This devel- 

opment a : >arily "liens the mind and 

memory, owing to the mind's remarkable 
powers of concentration. 

After the beginnei has learned to con:: 
his mind and becomes able to concentrate it 
at will, he should] when approaching and 



HIDDEN .MYSTERIES J2EYEAEED. 125 

while, engaged in conversation with anyone 
to whom he is abont^to^ make some .proposi- 
tion which he wishes accepted,. loo]^ v the person 
straight in the eye and hold. his gaze while 
talking to him, at. the same time using will 
power to influence him to accede. ^Mentally, 
by the will, command him to obey you. Make 
your proposition to him in a business-like 
manner and do not permit him to look away 
while you are talking. Keep his eye, if pos- 
sible, then he will have no opportunity of re- 
flecting upon what you are saying, and will 
be more liable to accept your statements a? 
final. Gestures with the hands should be 
made when necessary to emphasize certain 
words or statements. There are four differ- 
ent ways of influencing a person and they 
must all be brought to bear upon him to ac- 
complish the object. These ways are as fol- 
lows: First, by your eyes; second, by what 
is said, or spoken suggestions; third, by ges- 
tures with the hands; fourth, with th r mind, 
which transmits the influence from the op- 
erator's mind to that of ike subject and im- 



12*5 HIDDEN MT-STSRIES 2EVKALED. 

presses him to obey the mental suggestion. 
.For what is stated to a person must be forci- 
ble to have the desired impressions. Repeti- 
tions of spoken suggestions or statements are 
often necessary, and when repeated they 
should be made in a positive and enthusiastic 
manner. When words are spoken with a posi- 
tiveness they carry with tLem a certain con- 
vincing influence and the attentive listener 
is deeply impresseed by what is said to him. 
As stated before in this chapter, every person 
has this ability or will power, but it must be 
developed by application. Every person 
should cultivate a strong mind or will. To 
strengthen the mental forces is to strengthen 
1 lie piiys-ical body, build up character and im- 
pro\c both th: physical and mental capabili- 
ties. 

Every living person should know something 
about the human mind and should understand 
its kr.vs.~and principles, possibilities, suscep- 
tibilities and its power. Even a limited know- 
ledge of the laws of the mind and soul, com- 
bined with the power of concentration and 



.which can oply be gained by an understand- 
ing and application o£ the laws which govern 
the mc-itai L/i psychic organism, will reward 
.the student. It is then that man begets a re- 
alization of the great possibilities ikat are 
open to him. To succeed in life and business 
one must be guided by this science. The phe- 
nomenal success of, some business men proves 
this statement beyond a question. They suc- 
ceeded through the application of the princi- 
ples which underlie and govern the mental 
forces. Evidence to substantiate this abounds 
everywhere. Man possesses powers that can 
be developed by a knowledge of psychology 
which will reveal to him the wide sweep and 
possibilities of human existence. 

This knowledge is most certainly indispen- 
sable to every man or woman of intelligence. 
All their influence in and relation to the 
world ; their health, finance, friends and ene- 
mies are the concrete expressions of their men- 
tal canditions. It is this knewledge which 
leads to power, health, wealth and happiness. 
The present is an age of transition iix>m old 



128 HIDDEN MYSTEEIES BEVEALED, 

and obscure conditions and doctrines, into 
better and more enlightened ones; an age of 
destruction for many of the old and incon- 
sistent dogmas which have been fostered by 
superstition and ignorance. Ignorance of the 
nature and possibilities of the mental forces 
within the physical body causes a man to fal- 
ter and waver, whereas he should always be 
confident, rising above his circumstances and 
conditions. 

The mental or life forces of man influence 
and affect everything within the range of 
human thought ; everything within the scope 
of human effort and from which emanates the 
theories, customs, hopes, fears, hatreds, sup- 
erstitions, vice and virtues of the human race. 
Most everyone has experienced the emotions 
of the heart, felt the thrills and ecstacies of 
love, the maddening (ires of hatred and re- 
venge, and knows how envy and desire defeat 
the letter judgment and overcome the will-— 
how Weak the forces of reason are when pas- 
sion pleads. Man should know how grattd 
it is : 'td'bi?*^fi£H^-cr and 



HIDDEN MYSTEKIES REVEALED. 1.29 

guiding passions: but he will remain a sport 
arid prey to passion until he has a knowledge 
of the principle of being. 

THE ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS. 

Confidence, patience and perseverence are 
absolutely necessary accompaniments and es- 
sentials to complete success as an operator, 
just as they are necessary for business success 
or in every other human endeavor. If dur- 
ing your first attempts as an operator you 
have not perfect confidence in yourself, as- 
sume as much as you can and do not let your 
mind dwell upon the thought of failure. It 
is sometimes well, if the subject knows noth- 
ing of hypnotism, to state to him in the be- 
ginning that there is nothing unusual or ob- 
jectionable about the hypnotic or mesmeric 
sleep, which is the natural sleep artificially 
induced, and that he will realize and be con- 
scious only of the most pleasant and agree- 
able sensation during its induction. For if 
the person to be operated upon expects or an- 
ticipates something unusual, such expectation 



1 30 HIDDEN MlTSTERlES REVEALED. 

will distract his attention and cause his mind 
to become less passive than it should be for 
successful inductions. All hypnotic and mes- 
meric influence or; induced sleep-are psychical 
in their nature, as in the induction and subse- 
quent condition of hypnosis. Therefore care 
and attention to detail are absolutely neces- 
sary for success. v 

MFFEKENT STAGES OF HYPNOSIS. 

The depth to which each subject enters the 
hypnotic t state varies with each individual; 
but there are certain classifications which are 
important, as some pass into a light sleep, 
others into a deep slumber; this depends up- 
on the susceptibility of the subject of hypnosis 
and the ability of the operator. As a rule, 
the hypnotic sleep deepens with every hyp- 
nosis till about the fifth or six£h induction. 
At this time the ^subject has usually reached 
J lis deepest stage. These different stages or 
d/grees of hypnosis vary from ^ condition 
which only an expert hypnotist can detect as 
hypnosis, to' a state in v/hicTi strikingly ab- 



HIDDEN- MrSTEHIES KEVEAI<ED. 131 

normal conditions arc present. The variety 
of stages are many, and different observers 
have made attempts to classify them* These 
various classifications ore, however, extremely 
unsatisfactory; no two agreeing; their divis- 
ions being from two up to ten. It would be 
a waste of time to dwell upon the different 
opinions advanced ; and it is useless to attempt 
a more detailed classification than the follow- 
ing: 1. Light hypnosis; 2. Deep hypnosis; 
3. Profound hypnosis; 4. Somnambulistic 
state; 5. Cataleptic state; 6. Clairvoyant 
state; 7. Lethargic state (dangerous) ; 8. Pro- 
found hypnosis ; no recollection on returning 
to the normal condition of anything that ha> 
been said or done while in the hypnotic con- 
dition. 

I wish to say that many diseases can be 
successfully treated by magnetism without 
producing the hypnotic sleep, as has been 
demonstrated beyond a question of doubt, and 
is accomplished in the following manner: If 
the patient is laying down, turn them to the 
right, or on the right side, This gives free 



1 32 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

action to the heart. Then tell the patient to 
breathe deep and remain quiet. Say that you 
are going to relieve them in a few minuter. 
Take hold of the patient's left wrist with your 
left thumb and middle finger, the ball of the 
thumb upon the pulse. Now breathe deep 
and concentrate your mind upon the patient 
firmlv willing; that they shall come under 
your influence, and that you transmit mag- 
netism from you to them to supply the deficit 
and to produce a moisture on the skin and 
relieve their sufferings. As soon as moisture 
starts, which will generally be in from one 
to three minutes, say to them you are getting 
ting easier/' If they say '"Yes," it shows 
you are getting control of them. Then place 
your two thumbs between the eyebrows, press- 
ing gently, the ends of your fingers touch- 
ing the side of the head below and- back of 
the ears. Hold this position for about one or 
two minutes, willing them to become subject 
to your influence. Then place the ball of the 
right thumb against the lower rib under the 
"heart, just where it makes the turn up to the 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEAEE1X 1 ' 3 

breast bone, the ball of the left thumb on the 
navel ; press firmly but not hard enough to 
hurt the patient; continue this one or two 
minutes willing your power to enter the affect- 
ed parts, and to force the obstruction from 
them. If you then ask the patient how the 
part that is affected feels, he will say, "It is 
getting easier and feels warm." Then make 
your passes over the affected part toward 
the extremities and say, "The pain is mov- 
ing out, the swelling is going down :" continue 
this for a few minutes, then say, "Your pain 
is gone." If they say, "No," say to them, 
"It is only your recollection of where the 
pain was," but continue the passes for a brief 
period after that. 

I have relieved pain of three or four 
months* standing in thirty minutes; rheuma- 
tism of two weeks' standing in fifteen minutes 
and yet the patient was perfectly conscious 
all the time and would wonder how such a 
thing could be done. Some people are very 
susceptible of disease and although they can 
take pain out of others, they fill themselves 



1£4 I1IDDEX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

with it. This is done by the drawing p^Gcc3i 3 

by inaking the passes towards thems en e^ and 
by an effort of will drawing the pain out, 
which is very unhealthv. I know a man who 
operated on a patient axBicted with rheuma- 
tism and relieved the patient, tut* lie hinicG i 
in less' than, twenty-four hours had to be treat- 
ed for the disease. This can be avoided by 
making the passes from you, and as ii we. , 
by an effort of the will pushing the pain out 
instead of drawing it out. 

IXSTKTCTIGX FOR TESTIXG SUB- 
JECTS. 

As some persons are more quickly influ- 
enced than others, being more susceptible to 
hypnotic influence, you can by the following 
method- easily ascertain which ones wiH make 
good subjects and wl; ether you" will be able 
to impress them or not. "First hare the 
Reject stand up in -lie cr^T of the room, 
place both arms down 1 v his side with his 
heels touching, and ask him to let, as far 
as possible, his muscles relax and to stand 



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perfectly still. Then take a position in 
front of the subject and tell him you ar: go- 
ing to draw him forward, but not to be afraid 
of falling as you will stop him before he 
reaches the floor. Then concentrate your 
gaze intently and directly on the pupil of hi3 
left eye, and hold tne thought and intention 
firmly in your mind that you are going to 
draw him over toward you, and while look- 
ing at him do not l^t any other thought or 
idea enter your mind. Let nothing divert 
your attention from the task you have before 
you. Stand quite close to the subject, raise 
both of your open Lands to the level of his 
head, one on each side of the head, with fin- 
gers pointing backwards; then concentrate 
your eyes on his, as directed above, and draw 
your hands steadily and firmly forward, all 
the while intently willing him forward. Re- 
peat this method if you do not succeed the 
first time in influencing him, being sure to 
£ et the proper concentration. If the subject is 
susceptible to hypnotism he will feel an ir- 
rcsistaUe influence drawing him forward off 



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his balance and will cc-me torv.ard you. You 
can then take the same position at his back 
and operate at the base of the brain in the 
same manner*, drawing him backward on his 
balance, catch him with vour hands, saving 
"All right; all right.'" 

Another method is to have him sit in a 
chair and clasp his hands between the thumb 
and second ringer of your left hand, and with 
the right hand make passes, down over his 
arms, from the shoulder to the hand, touch- 
ing them lightly, keeping your gaze on his 
left eye, giving the following suggestions in 
a firm voice and decided manner: "Your 
hands are getting lighter together. Your 
hands are getting tighter,'' all the time. 
When you try to <ret them apart you cannot 
do it : the more you try the tighter they will 
stick/' Thru st< ?k. release his hands. 

and it will be impossible f«:r him to get them 
apart, When he rii^is you have his hands 
locked tightly, release him by clapping your 
hands or snapping your fingers at the same 
time sawing in a loud voice: "All right. Take 



your hands apart; your bands are all right 
now." The next is the eye test Seat the 
subject with both feet flat on the floor. Tell 
him you are going ;o close his eyes so he 
cannot open them. Then have him close .his 
eyes; place his right hand, palm downward 
on his right knee; grasp his open left hand 
in your left hand, and with the right hand 
make light passes over his eyes and fore- 
head and say: "Now, when you try to open 
your eyes the lids will be stuck so tight to- 
gether you cannot get then apart, the more 
you try to open them the tighter they will 
stick; you cannot open your eyes, you can- 
not open your eyes; you have lost all power 
to open your eyes." Then let him try; but 
keep his left hand in yours. Let him strug- 
gle to get his eyes open. When you wish to 
release him do so by clapping the hands or 
snapping your fingers and say: "All right 
now." 

If a subject is influenced by any of the 
tests, you can regard him as a good subject to 
demonstrate hypnotism, but if no influence 



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has been produced by the above methods, re- 
gard him as a difficult subject, and one re- 
quiring time and patience to influence, one 
who cannot be used at once. 

TO INDUCE HYPNOTIC SLEEP. 

METHOD OXE. 

Seat jour subject in a comfortable chair 
with his back to the light, assuming an easy 
position for sleep, placing his feet flat on the 
floor and the palms of his hands upon his 
knees. The hands or legs must not be cross- 
ed when inducing sleep. Take your posi- 
tion on the right side, facing the subject. 
Say to him you arc- going to put him into 
a sound, comfortable sleep. Tell him to let 
his muscles become perfectly relaxed, and 
think tie is getting so sleepy he cannot keep 
his eyes open. Then secure his attention, 
and hold it. Let him see bv vour easv, con- 
fid nt manner that you are master of the 
situation. - Assert that you can hypnotize 
him. Xcrer allow a thought of failure to 
enter your mind for a moment, and mafc 



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39 



positive asertions. Be determined, tell him 
that you can and will hypnotize him. 

Then concentrate your mind and gaze on 
the pupil of his left eye ; tell him to look at 
your eyes, and not let his eyes waver or try 
to avoid your eyes until he gets so sleepy 
he cannot keep his eyes open. 
. While constantly willing him to sleep say 
to him in low firm tone: "You will begin to 
feel a sleepy, drowsy sensation coming all 
over your head and eyes; you are getting 
sleepy, sleepy, sleepy, so sleepy and drowsy 
you will not be able to keep your eyes open; 
your eyes open; your eyelids are getting so 
heavy you cannat keep them open. You are 
going, sound to sleep, sleep, sleep, so sleepy 
and; drowsy you cannot keep your eyes open 
any longer." Repeat those suggestions over 
and over until you notice the subject's eyes 
getting so sleepy and drowsy he cannot keep 
them open. Then say, "sound asleep," "dead 
asleep," "down deep asleep." "Go deep." 
"Down deep." When his eyes are closed 
make light passes over the forehead and eyes, 



I 40 HIDDEX MYSTERIES KEVEALKI). 

touching them lightly and keep on cay-ing 
deep asleep. Every breath you draw puis 
you deeper asleep." Every breath is a sleepy 
and drowsy one; every part of your body ia 
sound asleep, dead asleep, dead asleep." If 
the subject's eyes do not close entirely al- 
though he looks and feels sleepy, press the 
eyelids down with the tips of your fingers 
and he will be sound asleep. 

Have eveyone present keep perfectly quiet. 
No one should be allowed to walk around in 
the room, whisper, open or close the door, 
make any noise or movement in the room, as 
they distract the attention of the subject and 
may render your efforts futile. Have the 
subject keep his mind a blank so near as pos- 
sible. Everything possible should be done 
to quiet nervousness. It is not always nec- 
essary to carry out all the detailed instruc- 
tions given above. It depends upon the sus- 
ceptibility of the subject; the amount re- 
quired; sufficient amount should be used to 
produce the effect desired. The first hypno- 
sis is the most difficult to produce. After 



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the subject has been hypnotized a few times 
you may dispense with many of the details 
above mentioned. 

When you have the subject sound asleep 
it is well for a new beginner to make sug- 
gestions as follows: ''Now you are fast asleep, 
nothing will disturb you or wake you. You 
can't wake up till I count 3 and awake you. 
You can open your eyes, but you will stay 
asleep. Nothing will wake you." 

CATALEPSY INDUCED. 

You can then induce suggestive catalepsy, 
in the following manner: Place the arm at 
right angles with the body, make passes from 
the shoulder to the fingers, saying: "Now, 
your arm is getting etiff and rigid; you have 
r.o feeling in any part of your arm, it will 
remain in the position I place it ; you cannot 
take it down, it is as stiff as a stick and cannot 
be taken down ar bent.". 

The arm will remain in the position, and 
if you tell him no one else can take it down, 
or bend it, no one else can take it down 



l42 iiidde:: mysteries r^v^alkd. 

When you are ready to take it down, 
make passes from hand to shoulder, saying: 
"Xow you can take it down. And yea 
will do everything I te-1 you; you will have 
to do so. Xo one can wake you except my- 
self." You can then proceed to induce som- 
nambulism or transe condition, there by 
changing the personality of the subject. Tell 
him he will open hi? eyes without waking 
up, and when he 0[>ens his eyes he will be- 
hold the most beautiful flowers he ever saw, 
that there is a jbed m front of him ; tell him 
to get some for you ; if he hesitates insist. 
Tell him to pick some for you, and give some 
one an imaginary bouquet ; or tell him bees 
are stinging him, and see him try to drive 
them off, which is very amusing; or give 
Lim a stick for a pole and have him catching 
fish from an imaginary lake; or tell him he 
i^ a politician, and have him make a speech 
to an imaginary audience; give him a lemcn 
and tell him it io an orange or an apple and 
he will eat it with pleasure: tell liim he is a 

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little boy and he will act the part of a boy; 



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143 



you 'can produce any delusion in the same 
way; but the variety and perfection with 
which they are carried out depends upon the 
imaginations of the operator. You can make 
him forget his name, fix him so he cannot 
speak or open his mouth ; make his limbs stiff 
so he cannot walk, or even raise them off the 
floor until you tell him he can, or release him 
by proper suggestion. 

FACI5TATION— METHOD TWO. 

Set the subject in a comfortable position 
on one side of the room; the operator takes 
a position twelve or fifteen feet from him. 
Have the subject gaze steadily into the oper- 
ator's eyes, the operator must keep his gaze 
firmly fixed on the left eye of the subject, 
until the subject's ryes take on a vacant and 
transe-like stare. Then he is under perfect 
rontrol. You can then induce sleep by firm 
decided suggestions to that effect. You then 
proceed to pi*oduce somnambulism or trance 
as in method one. There is some risk in this 
method as if the subject be difficult the op- 



1±4 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

erator may be hypontked. But this can be 
avoided by determination on the part of the 
operator. 

Another method is to take hold of the sub- 
ject's hands. Then at a few inches look the 
subject fixedly in the eye. In a few minutes 
all natural expression leaves the face, and 
the subject sees nothing but the operator's 
eyes, which, if the consentration be strong 
and perfect, beem with brilliancy and attract 
and draw the subject as a needle is to a 
magnet. This plan sometimes succeeds with 
insane persons when all other methods have 
failed. In those cases, any means are permis- 
sible, as by hypnotism and suggestion the 
operator can cut short attacts of mania, and 
cure various mental conditions. These 
methods of fascination are extremely fatigu- 
ing and where prolonged staring is necessary 
the rotating mirror is greatly preferred. If 
the subject is told to gaze steadily into the 
operator's eyes he frequently in a short time 
imitates everything the operator does* The 
hypnotie memory is to be carefully guarded 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. U5 

against by the student, lest lie be led into 
many errors by neglecting the necessary pre- 
cautions. If the operator has been in the 
habit of accompanying some particular touch 
or pass with the verbal suggestion, he will 
find that, owing to -he memory of the sub- 
ject connecting the touch or pass with the 
verbal suggestion, he can dispense with the 
speech, and rely solely upon the touch to pro- 
duce the desired effect. This explains many 
mystifying tricks of hypnotists, who have 
learned to omit verbal suggestion, and thus 
add to the mystery of their performance, as 
at times the subject interprets some act or 
movement of the hypnotist as a suggestion; 
as, for instance: If during the first induc- 
tion of hypnosis the operator raises the arm 
or leg of his subject and by verbal suggestion 
makes it rigid, in all succeeding hypnoses it 
will only be necesary to elevate the arm or 
leg to obtain the same rigidity, without sug 
gestion. 

It is not always necessary that the eyes be 
closed to indicate a deep stage of hypnosis, 



1 4 KIDDEX MASTERIES KE^E^LED. 

/ 

though they- generally. &re. But when fasci- 
nation is used, the eyes may remain wide open 
the whole time. In the deepest degrie of 
hypnosis the eyes are frequently not quite 
closed, and the eye ball can be seen through 
the slight opening. Usually as the eyes close 
the eyeball turns upward and remains in that 
position until the subject is awakened. -Ax. 
other times the eveball returns to its i natural 
position after the eye has closed in sleep. 

THE TABLE METHOD. 

METHOD THREE. 

The. Table method is sometime? very de- 
sirable, as it can be used at private parties 
and social gatherings ' when operating upon 
ladies or giving demonstrations in : hypno- 
tism. 

Seat the subject in a chair oil the opposite 
side of the table with hands clasped and rin- 
gers locked, arms straight out on the table, 
the operator sitting in a chair on the -oppo- 
site-side of the table, gazing intently into 
the eyes of the subject for two or three min- 



1 1 IDDTCX M YSTERIES REVEALED. 1 4 7 

vtes. Then in a low decided tone tell the 
subject he cannot raise his arms from the 
table. When you have made him powerless 
to raise his arms, tell him he cannot get up 
off the chair, that he is stuck fast and the 
harder he tries to get up the tighter it will 
stick. His efforts to get up will cause a roar 
of laughter. The suggestions must be made 
cccidedly and the concentration perfect to 
obtain good results. 

It is interesting ana instructive for the 
Fti-dent at this time to study the change in 
his subject whose mind has become a perfect 
blank ; and as he sits there, unable to move, 
his expression will change, a far away look 
come into his face. The pupils will dilate 
several times, and his eyelids tAvitch spas- 
modically, which indicates the desired psy- 
chological condition. In ordinary cases the 
operator can control his subject n from 
ten to fifteen minutes, and when the pupils 
are observed to dilate and contract, a deep 
degree of mesmeric sleep can be speedily in- 
duced by the following suggestions: "Keep 



i 4 8 iriDDEX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

looking at me aJ the time. You cannot look 
away. Your eyes are becoming sleepy ; they 
are getting heavy ; you feci yourself getting 
sleepy and drowsy, that you cannot keep your 
eyes open.". Again repeat: 4 'Your eyes are 
getting sleepy and drowsy ; you feel a sleepy 
influence coming all over your head and 
body; you are getting so drowsy you will be 
dead asleep in a few minutes." And keep 
giving these sleep suggestions, which greatly 
facilitate the induction of hypnosis. 

These suggestions should be given in a 
very confident, positive and deliberate man- 
ner. Do not let the subject take his eyes 
away from yours; but hold his gaze, all the 
time giving suggestions in. long drawn words 
spoken in monotone, which is very conducive 
of deep, l'ou will notice his eyelids twitch 
for a few seconds, but the subject will soon 
settle back in kis seat, usually with a deep 
ihjwn breath, sad. the eydids dose .autoruar- 
ifcalhr. 

it is thea. die final verbal suggestions 
she-Y&M he given in a quiet yet firm manner- 



After .the eyes have closed, it is sometimes 
iiei!essarj for the hypnotist to lay his. hand 
firmly but gently on the subjects forehead, 
in order to induce deep sleep, and still contin- 
ue to give sleep suggestion. Tell him he is 
so deep in sleep that, no noise nor any person 
will be able to awaken him, that he will re- 
main asleep until you count three and wake 
him up. 

The depth of the induction depends chiefly, 
upon the susceptibility of the subject, there- 
for it is impossible to foretell with any de- 
gree of certainty what stage of hypnosis will 
be reached by a person who has never been 
hypnotized. But the operator can proceed 
to ascertain what degree the subject has at- 
tained. This is' generally done by raising the 
arm to a right angle with the body, telling 
the subject to keep it there. If the degree 
of catalepsy has been reached it will become 
rigid and will remain in that position until 
taken dewn by the operator. If this test holds 
gocd and the arm becomes cataleptic, the 
proper suggestion has been given. 



150 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED, 

The test of sonambulism may then be made 
in the following manner. Suggest to the 
subject that he will open his eyes when you 
count three, but that he will not wake up 
until you count five, and when he opens his 
eyes he will find that his nose is made of rub- 
ber; that he will be very anxious to pull it; 
that he will know he has a rubber nose ; that 
he will want to pull and stretch his nose. 
Then count three and insist upon the subject 
opening his eyes and pulling his nose . You 
can now induce any delusion you wish by 
making the proper suggestions. 

CATALEPTIC STATE. HOW INDUCED 

In this state the subject's body becomes 
perfectly rigid. 

The following instruction should be 
strictly followed: Have the subject stand 
firm upon the floor, arms straight down by 
bis side. Tell him in a decided manner ihafc 
yon are going to make every part of his body 
rigid; Then place the two middle fingers of 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. I 5 1 

the right hand upon the back of his neck, 
pressing the spine. 

Then in a <Lep positive voice say: "Rigid, 
rigid, rigid ; every pait of your body is getting 
rigid, rigid, rigid." 

Then stroke the arms and limbs downward, 
and make passes frorn the head down, slightly 
touching the body, all the time keeping your 
mind and will intensely concentrated upon 
the subject. Hold the thought firmly in 
your mind that he will get rigid. 

When his body has become rigid, take him 
1 y the shoulders and have an assistant take 
hold of his feet. Place his head upon the 
Lack of one chair and his feet upon another. 
His rigid body will hold up the weight of 
one or two persons quite easily. 

Caution : Do not keep the subject in cata- 
leptic state too long. Awaken him by clap- 
ping your hands at the side of his head, and 
after he is again placed upon his feet, say 
in a loud voice: "All right; wake up." 

LETHARGY; OR DEATH TRANCE. 



1 52 HIDDEN* MYSTERIES REVEALED, 

i The lethargic state or -death thrance is an 
independent condition which is characterized 
by the dimunition of the powers of volun- 
taiy motion, and from which it is quite diffi- 
cult to arouse the subject ; and some times im- 
possible; for when he passes into this state 
he ceases to be in "rapport" with the opera- 
tor, having passed beyond his control. This 
condition of coma is the result of the opera- 
tor permitting .his subject to remain inactive 
too long after he has produced somnambu- 
lism. 

This is an extremely dangerous state, and 
the operator should guard against it by keep- 
ing his subject interested and doing something. 
He should be kept active by inducing various 
delusions which employs his mind and keeps 
him conscious of his environments and .sus- 
ceptible to suggestions ; while if left to him- 
self his eyes will assume the trance-like or 
••vacant stare and liable to pass into the death 
trance or ■ state- oi coma. If the. hypnotist. has 
more than one subject under control at the 
same* time, he -should be- v^ry cdi^fuL to )Keq) 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 1 53 

them all busy doing something to attract 
their attention, if he cannot use all of them at 
once, he should awake some of them before 
they pass into this apparent lifeless condition. 

This strange psychical condition of pro- 
found trance or lethargy, so accurately 
counterfeits death that living interments are 
made, it is a form of suspended animation, 
the heart and lung action being suspended 
during the induction of this profound degree 
of lethargic sleep. This phenomenon is char- 
acterized by an absence of bodily warmth, 
accompanied by all the ordinary indications 
of departed life, and giving the body every 
appearance of a corpse. The duration of this 
death- trance before the spirit takes its final 
leave from the body, is indefinite, being gov- 
erned by the condition of the subjects mental 
and physical condition. 

There can be little doubt but that there are 
many persons buried alive while in this coma- 
tose state. Its duration being indefinite and 
the characteristics similar to death, the at- 
tending physician, if he has no knowledge cf 



1 54: IIIDDEX MYSTERIES EEVEALED. 

medical psychology will after administering 
the ususal stimulants and means of provoking 
reaction ( and fail of course) will pronounce 
the patient dead and the unfortunate being is 
placed in his coffin, where he regains conscious- 
ness and dies the horrible death of suffocation. 
A case of living interment is reported cf 
U young man v who took morphine with suici- 
dal intent. He was to all appearanes d?ad 
when found by relatives. The physician 
called, after making the usual examination 
and tests in such cases, he pronounced the 
young man dead. His funeral services wore 
held three days later; the coffin containing 
the supposed corpse being placed in a 10- 
ccjvirig fault. At the expiration cf ten days, 
the time set for the burial, the coffin was 
opened in cider that the relatives might have 
n last leek at their dead, A horrible sight met 
'dieir g32&; the yeuiig man h&d turned lm:l 
«2>vi r Vipcm his left side, in his right hand, 
dte&ekod in death's sgo&j was f ound frag- 
MC&te %£ hair which he had torn from hi i 
hc&sL 3.fe coIk;r jar^on^d his neck also shewed 



evidence ©f his attempt to tear it arcfcasy cluu&g 
the straggle he had made against deatk 

But in these cases cf jpiQfou&d kfh&rgy 
neither coagulation box decomposition set in ; 
although its duration be, from three to six 
mouthy and stooge as it may seem to the 
uninformed, the soul continues within the* 
tody and life is sustained without air; but? 
once the subject is revived and resumes' his 
normal condition, he must have air ta breathe 
ix he will die- 

Cases illustrating this are given xinder the 
heading of "Hypnosis Self-Induced", where 
it is shown that this death-trance ox comatose 
state can be induced by voluntary effort or 
auto-suggestion. It is well to know, when 
you see a death trance, whether of bypnotie 
or hysterical origin, what to do, 

Instructions for producing reaction will be 
given under the heading "How to awaken 
Different Subjects." 

CLAIRVOYANCE OR SECOND SIGHT. 

Clairvoyance or seeing at a distance where- 



1 56 HIDDEN MYSTERIES EEVEALED. 

persons can be put into a trance" so that 
they can locate lost, hidden, or stolen articles, 
ferret out murders, thieves, etc., is possible 
-when this condition is properly induced and a 
good subject is used. 

^Before given specific instructions for pro- 
ducing the clairvovant state, I will rive a 
description of the phenomena of this trance- 
like condition and the ability of a person 
when in the clairvoyant state. The mind of a 
gocd clairvoyant subject can be made to 
leave the body and be directed to any locality 
anywhere in space, and can give an accurate 
account of things being done at that particu- 
lar place. It matters not whether it is in the 
rame room or one thousand miles away, the 
mind will find the place. Distance makes no 
difference because the mind or psychic organ- 
ism of man does net recognize space. 

AM hypnotic ^uVjeet? do not make gocd 
clairvoyants, a person should be selected, who 
i- of a quiet and sensible disposition, one who 
can be put Into a very deep hypnotic sleep. 
T^iese- tpiOLiHesi-icns are n£4?essnry if geevd re- 



ttlwatTS p?it the subject asleep as m method! 
*me, r.smg the mesmeric passes am? when b# m ■ 
in a* deep, sound sleep, tell him he has bow- 
entered! the elairroygraf state, and that while 
in this condition his mine! can leave his body 
#ncf go anywhere in space yon may direct it. 
Deeply impress this fact upon his mind, and 
keep him down deep asleep by giving- sugges- " 
liens while he is being blindfolded. Then ask' 
him if he is ready to go to any designated 
place. If he says he is yon can direct his 
mind to any place you wish, and, if yon have 
Iiirn deep enough under the influence, he will 
answer any question regarding the place or 
person. 

It is a common thing for the Hindoos of 
India to self induce this condition and give 
accurate accounts of battles going on miles 
away. This fact is well known to all familiar 
with India and her people, who are well ad- 
vanced in the occult sciences. 

HYPNOSIS SELF-INDUCED. 



158 HIDDEN MYSTERIES BEVEALED. 

That one can hypnotize himself is an €3tal> 
lished fact. These powers lie dormant in all 
human beings and can be developed by proper 
application of the will, or what is known as 
auto or self suggestions, combined with con- 
centration. All occult phenomena, whether 
psychic or spiritualistic, is the result of natural 
laws. Nothing ever happened, which was not 
due to facts, circumstances and conditions. 

To be able to properly induce this condition 
the psychic powers must be developed in the 
following manner; The beginner should go 
into a quiet room and lie down in a comfort- 
able position, concentrate his sight and mind 
upon some small object in the rooin, the body 
perfectly relaxed. Take in slow, regular 
breaths 9 hold the (thought in joux mind (ex- 
clusive of all other things) that every breath 
vou draw is putting you sound asleep, and that 
yow are beeosaing toteljt ueaco&scioue ©f jovt 

Xr Is absolutely iMxaesaBOT that tosl c©me^i- 
tmfet y<^ar mind and whole attention as well 
aktlte **tffcs -upon the ©Meed: and tkmk «aily of 



HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 1 59 

going to sleep, and that you will remain sound 
asleep for an hour, two hours, or any reason- 
able length of time desired. You should 
always decide on a certain time to wake up, 
when inducing the hypnotic sleep, and when 
that time arrives you will wake up feeling 
greatly refreshed and strengthened. 

These are auto-suggestion and can be given 
to suit the sleeper, who may remain in the 
hypnotic sleep almost any time he desires. 

There are recorded cases of Hindoos who 
have self -induced the hypnotic sleep and re- 
mained in that state for six months, anima- 
tion being entirely suspended, so that no 
signs of life could be detected. 

The power and effect of suggestion on the 
imagination is wonderful and there is no 
doubt that sickness and even death itself is 
often caused by suggestion. 

Let a man's friends tell him repeatedly that 
he is looking badly, that he does not seem able 
to be about ; that he is going to be down sick 
with this or that complaint, and four times out 
of five he will soon begin feeling badly and 



I OCT HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

really think he is sick. 

Dieease can be and is caused by morbid 
suggestions, either auto or given. "Disease 
can be and is, cured by healthful suggestions, 
either auto or given." 

-This is an undisputed fact, well known to 
all who have scientific knowledge of the nature 
of man. 

HOW TO AWAKEN A SUBJECT. 

After hypnosis has been induced and the 
subject is sound asleep give him decided sug- 
gestions that when you count three he will 
wake up, that he cannot remain asleep but 
will have to wake immediately. Then awak- 
en him by counting three, and saying imme- 
diately in a loud voice : "All right ; wake up," 
and ho will be wide awake. The operator 
should never loose his presence of mind or be- 
come excited if the subject does net wake up 
when told to ; but should in a confident man- 
ner repeat the suggestions and make him wake 
up by loudly saying: "All right now; wake 



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J? 



Pp. 

Ordinarily, if a subject does not respond 
to the suggestions and wake when told to, the 
hypnotist should retain his composure of 
mind, and give positive suggestions to the 
subject that he cannot and will not be able to 
remain asleep when he counts three and tells 
him to "wake up." He should then command 
him as follows : "All ready ; one, two, three, 
all right; wake up;" and at the same time 
clap your hands together loudly near the head 
of the subject. If the subject still tails to re- 
spond, awaken or obey any suggestions you 
give you should proceed to give sleep sugges- 
tions. Te]l him he is having a good sound 
sleep, that he hears and will obey every word 
you say to him. Then proceed to give the 
waking suggestions again. Give them in a de 
cided and positive manner. Say ,"A11 right, 
now; wake up." "Wide awake!" Lightly 
slap the subject on the right side of his head, 
while giving these suggestions and keep this 
up until he awakens or until you get some 
response, If he recovers partly, but does not 



1 62 HIDDEX MYSTERIES REVEALED, 

become wide awake^ put kini to sleep again 
and tell him he will not go very deep to sleep 
this time, that he is only having a light sleep 
and that when you tell him to wake up he 
will become wide awake ; then proceed as be- 
fore and wake him up. 

You should understand that if you 
lose your presence of mind or become ex- 
cited it is best to go away from the subject and 
let them sleep it off. No operator will ever 
succeed in waking a subject if he becomes 
nervous or loses his self-confidence. He must 
not doubt his own abilitv to awaken the sub- 
ject, who is highly susceptible to the operator's 
condition of mind and immediately receives 
impressions by telepathy of the operator's 
want of confidence or incompetency, and the 
suggestions to awaken are of no avail if the 
latter conditions prevail, 

TO AWAKED A SUBJECT HYPNO- 
TIZED BY ANOTHEB. 

To awaken a "subject that another has put 



JUDDER MYSTERIES REVIUXED. I 63 

fe sleep, proceed as follows: Have everyone 
leave the room in which the subject is sleep- 
ing. This removes all adverse influence, to 

the operator's ability to awaken the subject 
<md which greatly militates against your 
chances of success. After the room is cleared 
take a seat beside the sleeper, take his left 
hand in yours, and with the right make passes 
over his head. No spoken suggestions should 
be given at first; but mentally impress the 
subject with your presence and ability to 
awaken him. This mental attitude towards 
the subject should be maintained for a spac2 
of ten minutes at least ; then a few quieting 
verbal sleep suggestions should be given to 
place the subjects mind at ease. Tell him 
every nerve and muscle in his body is resting 
perfectly quiet, then raise his right arm and 
give suggestions for producing catalepsy in the 
arm. T[f it becomes rLii, this is favorable, anj 
indicates that the subject is "in rapport" 
with you, that you have succeeded in gaining 
control of the subject's mind. You can now 
proceed to awaken the subject according to 



i6i IIIDDEX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

the instructions given above for awakening 
difficult subjects. If as a rule the subject is 
hard to awaken or get out of hypnosis, the 
operator should give suggestions directly after 
the sleep has been induced, that when he 
counts three and tells the subject to wake up, 
he will instantly become awake. Then when 
you are ready to awaken him do so in the 
regular way. Some subjects will struggle 
strongly or start in a frightened manner when 
awakened, which can be avoided by giving 
suggestions that the sleeper will awaken in 
a quiet and composed condition of mind, 
without any unusual demonstrations and free 
from nervousness or fright. 

It is well for the student in hypnotism 
and mesmerism to know that if a subject can- 
not be awakened by the method given in thi-> 
work, and the nervousness of the operator hrs 
cud with an unpleasant effect on the sleeper 
that to send for a medical man who is ignor- 
ant cf, and disbeliefs in the science of £Le 
buoisii mind and would treat the case as an 
tedlasiy nhmmnal physical eondi£kn # m&$ i? 



fbH@Vv'€iE hj the mmi s^riotr-s cft&scq^agcs. 
The writer cannot to etrcsngl y xirge that cabst- 
p:es% cenfiflciBce and patience upon the part 
c-f-'the operator- are absolutely -necessary to 
I ring the subject out of hypnosis.- 

Another phase, by which an inexperience d 
operator may be deceived, and from which 
serious results may follow, is the imperfect or 
partial awakening of the subject from hypno- 
tic or mesmeric sleep. 

In all cases it is best, before awakening a 
subject out of the hypnotic or mesmeric sleep, 
td-give him suggestions, that when he awakens 
he will feel all right and entirely free from 
drowsiness*, that his head will feel perfectly 
clear, that he will feel rested and greatly 
strengthened in every part of his body. If 
this care is taken by those operators who use a 
subject continuously for public or private de- 
monstrations the subject will be benefited, and 
in a short time the operator will see the bene- 
fit of these health-giving suggestions. . 

TREATMENT BY SUGGESTION. 



I 60 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

All diseases and especially those of nervous 
origin can be benefited if not entirely cured 
while the patient is quietly sleeping, from 
which he will awaken free from pain and 
greatly relieved in mind and body. When 
desiring to treat any one, always induce the 
sleep by the mesmeric passes, as given in 
method one, and when the patient is in a 
sound, quiet sleep give suggestions that when 
he awakes he will be entirely •£ ree from ail 
pain, and that when he goes to bed at night- 
he will go sound asleep and have a good night's 
rest and will feel much improved in the 
morning. 

Of course, the suggestions should be given 
to suit each case ; the operator using his bett 
judgment, after treating a few cases he will 
have no trouble in relieving all in whom he 
has induced the sleep. 

Hypnosis is a psychological condition 1a 
which mental forces become highly susceptible 
to suggestion. 

After the condition is once induced it re- 
maps for the treatment to be applied. The 



Fgg§estiiiofi& T^rj aee^rd&g to*, the mrtuci:^ <rf 
«j£ the disease to be treated* If iM^aidhii is 
tae chief symptom, the head should fe 
-uhbed gentiry while the dissappearaiBee t£ tlie 
p&in and the B^B-reaij^earaiice is sqggc&t@d. 
If sciatica nib -the course of the sciatic; nerve. 
If insomnia, tell the patient he Will feel a 
drowsy, sleepy sensation come over htm as 
he retires, and will sleep good through the 
night- If constipation , a movement i» m$g* 
gested at a special hour* 

In treating rheumatism, the parts should be 
well rubbed and the joints and muscles 
exercised by movement. In neurasthenia and 
spinal irritation, the spine is rubbed and 
kneaded. In amenorrhea, the advent of the 
period should be suggested at the time it is 
due. In moral cases, a dislike for the habit 
and freedom from the cravings, is suggested 
also self control and a desire to be cured, 

A patient will often awake relieved or 
cured of a long standing disease or loss oi 
function; but it is not best that patient cr 
physician should expect too' much, as marvel; 



168 HIDDEX MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

cus cures are not always the most permanent. 
There should, however, be a steady improve- 
ment from day to day. 

In many instances it is best to let the 
patient rest for twenty minutes or more; for 
during that period the suggestions are work- 
ing under a most favorable condition of the 
nervous svstem. 

For chronic and extreme cases the treat- 
ment should be given every one, two or three 
days ; otherwise the patient may relapse. The 
writer has found improvement from. the first 
tractment, and cure permanent when once 
achieved. In many patients there will be a 
tendency to give up the treatment when a 
certain amount of progress has been made. 
This should be strenuously combated. In 
moral cases it is absolutely necessary to have 
them report at regular intervals for repitition 
and leinforcement of the suggestions. 

OUEE8 GE A PEEALAXEXT CIIAE-- 

ACTEE. , 

The quc:tion is frequently asked whether 



1III>I>EX MYSTERIES KEVEJJLEIX H*9 

rcres matte by hypnotic suggestion are of a 
permanent character. To this I will say that 
these cures are as permanent as a rule as any 
tind especially those of a nervous character. 

([Relapses occur in many diseases, no matter 
what treatment is employed. They are some- 
times due to carelessness or neglect of the 
patient or of those who have charge of him. 
A person cured of rheumatism can, by sug- 
gestion be made to assume a mental attitude 
that will not permit a relapse, even from a 
fresh cold; therefore, with proper attention* 
and precautions in giving suggestions the 
success of suggestive treatment is not tem- 
porary by any means. 

HOW TO GENERATE MAGNETISM 
AND WHAT KIND TO APPLY. 

While magnetism is imparted from the 
operator to the subject by will power, it is 
generated by the breathing, and the manner 
of breathing s what generates the different 
kinds of ma^Tictism. When you wish to io- 



i 70 HIDDEN MYSTERIES REVEALED. 

part active magnetism breathe deep and % 
little faster than natural this will fill you with 
active magnetism, and keep up the supply 
while operating on patients. If you wish tci 
impart, stable magnetism, breathe deep and 
slow, so as to keep up the supply in your own 
body, then you w^ill not become weak while 
operating and can operate on a number of 
cases each day without injury to your self. 

To apply the proper magnetism is just as 
essential as to give the right kind of nicdl^ 
cine, and you should study your case to see 
Avhich class he belongs to. 

As pain is caused by both it is no guide 
but the patients condition is to be apprehend- 
ed, thus, if the patient is hot, nervous, excit- 
able and constantly in motion, the stable or 
cooling magnetism should be transmitted. 
But if he is cool, no fever or a low grade cf 
fever, muscles or joints stiff, swellings 
tumors, congestion, or in fact any inactive 
condition^ then use the active magnet ism. 

{Every person has two magnetisms for each 
of the five senses and if either becomes de- 



Eciciitj disease is sure to fellow and the eliar- 
acter of the disease "will be in the opposite 

tlirection to the magnetism that is deficient 
Thus if the active magnetism is deficient, 
the part, or parts affected will lose activity and 
become weak and fail to perform their func- 
tions. But if the stable or cooling magnetism 
is deficient the pait or parts take on increased 
activity and lose their stability, becoming 
irritated, inflamed, hot and dry, and the person 
loses control of the parts affected. 

HOW TO BE IMMUKE FROM CON- 
TAGIOUS DISEASES. 

•To immune ones self from disease is done 
by a firm resolution of the will that you will 
not take the disease, if you are afraid or 
think ycu will take a disease you are very 
liable to have it. 



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Bites and Stings 1H 

Bitters 93 

Blame on Others 45 

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Blue Flag 83 

Black Haw , 90 

Bowels, the €-3 

Boys, Advise to 47 

Bromide of Potash 78 

Bryona , 78 

Cactus Grandiflorus 78 

Canadian Hemp 73 

Canady Fleabare 81 



Cancer, Hew to Cure 103 

Carbuncle, to Cure 109 

Catalepsy, How Induced 141-150 

Child, bearing of 23 

Chiananthus 73' 

Chloroform 79 

Chicken Lice 123 

Cinnamon 7.) 

Clairvoyance or Second Sight , .... 155 

Clothing ....." 67 

Courtship and Marriage 1 

Companion, How to Choose 7 

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Colocynth S8 

Comparative Dose of Medicine for Children 9L 

Corns and Warts, to Cure 103 

Coug'h Syrups 96-97 

Cures of a Permanent Charcter 16S 

Cypripedian 88 

Deadly Night Shade 78 

Diaphoretic Powder 93 

Disease, to be Immune from 171 

Disease, What is 73 

Disposition, When Developed 17 

Disposition, How Developed 13 

Digitalis 80 

Di oseorea 80 

Earache Ill 

Emetic- Powder * 9 1 

Ergot 88 

Erigen m 81 

Eupa torinm Durpureum , 81 

E: er, i e 65 



Eye Water and Salve. , 101-103 

Facsination Method, two 143 

Fa.thers, Advice to 22 

Fellons and Boils, to Cure 109 

Food and Drink 64 

Fox Glove 80 

Fringe Tree 79 

Celseminum 81 

Gentian m 82 

Goetre (Big neck), to cure 113 

Goldenseal . . S3 

Gonorrhea (clap), Injection for 1C6 

Hair Oil 103 

Hair Restorative 104 

Hamamelis 82 

Health, What is 73 

Llealth, Laws of 55 

Honey Bee Tincture 76 

Hydrastis 82 

Hydragogue Cathartic 93 

Hypnotism 119 

Hypnosis*, Different Stages of 130 

Hypnotic Sleep, to induce method one 138 

Hypnosis, Self-induced 157 

How to Awaken a Subject 160-162 

Tgnatia, Been S2 

Ipecac 83 

Iodide of Potash 83 

Iron by Hydrogen 81 

Iron, Muriate Si 

Iri£, Versicolar 83 

Ttch, Lotion for 104 

Kidneys, tl e 63 



Lady, Trying to get the advantage of 33 

Lady Slipper 79 

Leptandria £3 

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Life Root l& 

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Love Courtship, What is it 6 

Macrotys 84 

Magnetism, How to Generate 1 9 

Materia Medica 7.5 

Mind Culture 43 

Mind and Body OS 

Mothers, Advice to 40 

Mouth, the CO 

Xight Blooming Series 7S 

Nitrate of Soda 84 

Nursing the Sick 114 

Nux Vomica 6.i 

Plasters . 9D-100 

Pleurisy Boot 75 

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Poke Boot SO 

Padophyllum S7 

Polygonium £7 

Poisn Oak SS 

Potassium Bromide 78 

Potassium Chlorate S3 

Potassium, Xitrate Q 5 

Potassium, Permanganas 85 

Potassium, Sulphate 8^ 

Pregnancy, How Produced 32 

Pregn^nry, How to Prevent 13 

Pulsatilla ST 

Queen of the Meadow . ■ 81 

Ouinme Suiphus . S3 

Rhus Tax 8^ 

Salr Petre . .... S3 



Salves 101-102 

Sangumarian, JNittat 38 

Scurvy of the Teeth, to cure. 10S 

Sea i oam to Clean the Hair 1U3 

Senico Gracilis 89 

bexiial Organs 10 

Skin, the , 58 

Skin, How to Make Artificial 109 

Snake Bite Ill 

Soda Sulphite 89 

Sticta 89 

fctomach, the " 63 

^ tone Root 79 

Subject, How to Test 134 

success, Essentials of 129 

Sulphur 89 

\ a tale, Method of Hypnoses 146 

Toe, Nail Ingrowing, to cure 10S 

Toothache, to cure 110 

Treatment by Suggestion 165 

Vanerial Disease, to prevent 105 

Yeratrum Vired 89 

Yiburnem, Prunifolium 90 

Water, Pepper S7 

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Wire Cuts, to cure Ill 

Wild Indigo 77 

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Witch Hazel 82 

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